Mars Rovers Alive Until 2005?

maggeth writes "The BBC is reporting that negotiations are under way to extending funding for the Mars rovers beyond this September. Originally designed to work for 90 Martian days, they now predict they may last well beyond the 250 Martian days they had announced previously." hoferbr writes "A new analysis by Phil Berardelli at the United Press International quotes Steve Squyres, chief scientist for the Mars rover mission, in which he says that the Mars rovers '... could go into 2005'. Spirit and Opportunity will complete six months on the Martian surface on July."

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Re:wow

[cK-Gunslinger]

I bet you paid a fortune for that 1.6GB drive, if it was really 9 years ago. I'm just saying this because in 1994/95 (xmas), I got my first 'real' PC. [486DX2-50MHz -- the new Pentiums had just come out -- my parents got royally screwed]

Anyway, the damn thing came with a 200MB harddrive, which was ok for a while, but when Win95 came out, it was woefully small. Ditto, when I realized the abundance of.. uh.. entertainment.. available from the 'net. I kept my eyes on those nice 800MB units, but there was no way I could afford them for a *while.* Ah, memories. =P

Re:wow

[letxa2000]

Hey, they're doing pretty good if they only have one power outage per decade!

Re:wow

[AKAImBatman]

Nope, it really wasn't that bad. In 1995, I got a prebuilt P120 with 16 megs of RAM, 1.6 Gig drive, and Windows 95 preinstalled. Set me back $2000 bucks, but it was worth it to have the most powerful machine in the neighborhood. The 16 megs helped a LOT. Most people went for 8 megs, but that really didn't cut it for serious computing. I later upgraded the machine to 48 megs, and still have a 64 meg chipset that I've been lazy about putting in.