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Spirit Rover is One Year Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the happy-birthday-to-you dept.

dolphin558 writes "The little rover that could, did. The Spirit Rover marks its one year aniversary after an expected lifetime of just 3 months. It has traversed more than 2 miles of Martian landscape and sent back thousands of pictures and reams of data. There is no indication that it will die anytime soon as it climbs the Columbia Hills."

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  1. OS Glitches... by warderz · · Score: 1, Troll

    Quite amazing life span for the bugger despite the OS glitches that rendered it almost unusable. Maybe they should use embedded Windows instead of DOS and 640K ram next time to prevent crashes :)

  2. Re:Great! Keep the Spacemen at Home by cortex · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course, then it would be preferrable to be on Mars as terrorists would be busy suicide bombing your local Startbucks and shooting down your vacation flight to Disneyland.