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Mystery Phenomenon Cleans Mars Opportunity Rover
vg30e writes "It seems that some unexplained phenomenon has cleaned the dirt off the Mars Opportunity Rover. While the Spirit rover is down to 400 watt-hours per day due to the dirt obscuring its solar panels, Opportunity has gone from 500 watt-hours to 900 per day. I wish this phenomenon would clean the snow off my car."
I've got a theory, and I think you may all agree with me on this:
We've stumbled on an ancient Martain car wash.
It's invisible, of course.
To think anything different would be just plain silly.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
You have to love an article containing the phrase "exciting and unexplained cleaning events".
I sure wish some of these would happen in my car and apartment!
You insensitive clod! I wish I had snow to clean off!.
We don't get much of the white stuff here in Georgia, USA....
/. is a bunch of nerds at a million typewriters. It's not a political conspiracy determined to undermine your beliefs.
I, for one, welcome our little green dirt cleaning overlords.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Women are from Mars.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
That's because they used the competing brand of rover softener on that one.
It is much more likely that NASA is now in posession of a photograph of a green guy in dingy clothes holding his hand out for a quarter.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
It's the phone sanitizers!
Duh, that's obvious. It was one of those bums that run up and wash your windshield at a traffic light, then try to demand payment.
"Merging into heavy traffic at near light speed!"
"Our inertial mass ever increasing!"