Spirit Outlasts Viking 2 Lander 137
ScottMaxwell writes "Spirit, the Mars rover designed for a 90-day mission, has now outlasted the Viking 2 lander. Viking 2 survived until its 1281st sol (Martian day); Spirit is now on sol 1282 and counting. Assuming both rovers continue to weather the ongoing dust storms, Spirit's sister, Opportunity, will reach the same age in a few weeks. They aren't breathing down the neck of the all-time record just yet, though — the Viking 1 lander lasted 2245 sols on the surface of Mars; Spirit and Opportunity won't break that record for another 2.7 Earth years."
Re:Spirit? Opportunity? (Score:3, Funny)
* V'ger
* Nomad
Re:NASA (Score:5, Funny)
Challenger
Columbia
JPL Closed, Scientists Search for Nothing (Score:5, Funny)
The unemployed JPL engineers and scientists then gathered their equipment at the Florida shore and launched a rover-based underwater probe to locate the cause of the Bermuda Triangle. Unfortunately the mission was a failure, as the Bermuda Triangle seems to have disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle. This important failure was discovered by the scientists who noted the rover's failure to fail to return. Hopefully the ex-JPL crew will turn their expertise to neuroscience in order to discover precisely why the previous sentence makes my brain hurt.
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Re:NASA (Score:1, Funny)
Re:JPL Closed, Scientists Search for Nothing (Score:2, Funny)
But you have 23 fans ...
Re:Nuclear powered (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe Viking 1 just liked the programming on a different satellite.
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Re:They are superstitious (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Spirit? Opportunity? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They are superstitious (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Oh my goodness me (Score:3, Funny)
It was faked on a soundstage in New Jersey.
Re:Oh my goodness me (Score:3, Funny)
They're hanging out with the flying cars, of course.
Re:Nuclear powered (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like a good mission for one of the rovers. Go bump the bastard in the right direction.
Re:Another broken record (Score:1, Funny)
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