Batteries will run out in a couple of hours, and it will be out of sight before too long. In addition, it's not really going to Mars, it's traveling around the sun at a distance that goes out as far as beyond Mars' orbit. So it probably won't be coming near Earth, Mars, or any of our space probes anytime soon. It'll basically be lost in the void until we get more powerful telescopes, more spacecraft, or both.
So the live stream will go dead eventually, we don't get to boot up the live stream 2 years from now and see where the car is chilling out? I'm dreaming!
There wouldn't be much to see anyway in a week or so... space is really big and empty, and with the camera adjusting to the brightness of highlights / reflections on the roadster you can't even really spot stars or planets.
Although it would be pretty cool to see where it is on a solar system map.
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u/rebootyourbrainstem Feb 07 '18
Batteries will run out in a couple of hours, and it will be out of sight before too long. In addition, it's not really going to Mars, it's traveling around the sun at a distance that goes out as far as beyond Mars' orbit. So it probably won't be coming near Earth, Mars, or any of our space probes anytime soon. It'll basically be lost in the void until we get more powerful telescopes, more spacecraft, or both.