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Mars Rover Stuck in a Dune

Posted by Zonk on from the get-out-and-push dept.

Bamfarooni writes "The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gotten stuck in a dune, buried up to the hubs of the wheels. While they haven't given up yet, it doesn't look good for the little guy who's now 359 days into the extended mission." From the article: "The Mars machinery had been cruising southward across the open parking lot-like landscape of Meridiani Planum, full of larger and larger ripples of soil. Opportunity has been en route to its next stopover, Erebus crater, nestled inside an even larger crater known as Terra Nova."

3 of 497 comments (clear)

  1. Humor? by Kaamoss · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have to see the humor in our incredibly exspensive, technical revolutionary machinery being put out of commision by some sand. Help, Rover's fallen and he can't get up.

  2. Yeah, and the Shuttle is going to fly again. by tjstork · · Score: 0, Troll

    :-)

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  3. Re:Don't give up, NASA! by bcmm · · Score: 0, Troll
    "We are very optimistic that we'll be able to get out of here, but we're really going to take our time doing it."
    It sounds like NASA is going to use a technique I discovered playing video games as a child.
    Actually, sounds even more like Bush *ducks*.
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