Spirit and Opportunity rovers mark five years on Mars

January 4, 2009
This image taken from the Spirit Rover shows the sunset on the planet Mars

This NASA photo shows bird's-eye view combined with a self-portrait of Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. The US space agency's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity this month mark their fifth anniversary on the Red Planet, where they have endured harsh conditions and revealed a deluge of information.

The US space agency's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity this month mark their fifth anniversary on the Red Planet, where they have endured harsh conditions and revealed a deluge of information.


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weewilly
Jan 04, 2009

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What a magnificent return on this science experiment. I tell the kids about it when I do speaking engagements in the schools. With the activities going on in schools these days we are making inroads to inspiring more engineers that we need for the future experiments to come. Manned missions too. Great article.
deatopmg
Jan 04, 2009

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"...the machines have covered 21 kilometers (13 miles) of Mars' characteristic red rock desert,..."

This has been a great scientific feat but some of the pictures published are NOT "desert", as NASA et al would like us to continue to believe, but clearly mud fields with water flowing between photographs;
http://xenotechre...low1.htm
http://xenotechre...ome1.htm
http://xenotechre...ter5.htm
with many, many more at that site and other sites.

What is NASA's motive of keeping us, who pay for all of this, in the dark?
deatopmg
Jan 05, 2009

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and here; http://xenotechre...ow03.htm
Dry, moist, and wet sand on Mars just like when you were a kid at the beach.

It's great to see NASA/JPL lurkers ranking my previous comment a "1" in spite of their own images showing the effects of liquid water.
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