Spirit celebrates six years on Mars

[The_Librarian]

NASA's Spirit Mars rover today passes its sixth anniversary on the Red Planet, albeit bogged down in sandy soil which looks likely to be its final resting place.

Spirit arrived on Mars at 8:35 pm PST on 3 January, 2004 (04:35 GMT on 4 January), followed by its twin Opportunity on 24 January. The pair were intitially expected to last three months, but have proved they have the Right Stuff by surviving "six Earth years, or 3.2 Mars years", as NASA puts it.

Now that's technology for you. Pity it's stuck in a sand trap Hope they can get it out.

[MidnightWizard]

Now that's technology for you. Pity it's stuck in a sand trap Hope they can get it out.

Pity they do not make inkjet printers like that


MW

[Picard]

What's the condition of the other machine?

nvm. It's still going strong.

[The_Librarian]

whoopsy, forgot the linky

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01...r_anniversary/

[dabbler]

Poor chap.

http://xkcd.com/695/