Stephen Lopez
Godspeed, Mars Science Laboratory.
Mars landing scheduled for August 5, 2012. We’ll see you again soon.
xkcd:
Awwww.
We must go there and bring it home!
Best. Ever.
NASA’s Mars rover Spirit will rove no more. (via NASA ends effort to free rover from Martian sand - 1/26/10 - Houston News - abc13.com)
Standing ovation.
Original mission: 90 days.
Actual mission: 2,214 days, and counting.
NASA: FTW.
“Look at how those tracks meander across the top of Homeplate… I love that view… just look what we did! Our often-stupid, arrogant, cruel, self-obsessed species built a robot and sent it to Mars, then took its photograph with ANOTHER robot that we built and sent to Mars!”
http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/spirit-on-mars/
