Reply #1 on: January 04, 2009, 07:48:59 PM
These little guys were designed to go for 90 days. Spirit just celebrated it's 5th anniversary on Mars. Opportunity will pass that mile marker in three weeks.
That's freaking great. I remember watching the landing of one of them live on my computer via NASA TV. Just incredible.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan