"The CO" wrote in message
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I was mistaken is claiming the two landers are identical, as the second
robot has some chips that are a generation newer than the broken bot.

Not aware of that. Thank you. Interesting.

Today JPL validated what I wrote yesturday and they now expect to be able to
have the broken robot completely functional, in a few days.

If JPL does that, I say they are pretty smart.