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Hmm, I am not sure if they would have very sophisticated software on the lander, in the way your thinking. I don't think any processing is done on the lander itself. It might be just primarily used as a remote sensing telemetry system. I suppose the lander would have a lot of power management circuits, some control circuits, sensor-actuator circuits, and transmitter-receiver communication circuitry. There would probably be a RTOS for real-time measurement and actuator motion.

Still, I think someone with specific expertise might give a better answer.



> Hmm, I am not sure if they would have very sophisticated software on the lander, in the way your thinking.

I think it's safe to say that's still an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything I deal with on a daily basis ;)




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