5 Years And Counting
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Back in 2004, the Spirit Mars Rover landed with Opportunity landing 21 days later. NASA gave the American public a 3 month windows on these machines but 5 years later they are still moving around, collecting data and sending it back to Earth. According to NASA the rovers have returned 250,000 images, driven more than 13 miles, climbed a mountain, descended into craters, struggled with sand traps and aging hardware, survived dust storms, and relayed more than 36 gigabytes of data via NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Thank you NASA.......
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer-20081229.html
Posted by mardenhill 1/04/2009 12:58:00 PM
Labels: Science
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10:36 PM
Aww. I like the rovers! Little robots that could.
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