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The View from the Top of Husband Hill
chriscrick writes "After 14 months of climbing, the Mars rover Spirit has reached the summit of Husband Hill, 269 feet above the edge of the Martian plain. The panoramic view from the top is spectacular. According to lead scientist Steve Squyres, 'What field geologists typically do - and Spirit is a robotic field geologist - is you climb to the top of the nearest hill and take a look around so you get the lay of the land and figure out where you want to go.'"
Mars rover Spirit climbs on top of husband....husband rolls over a minute later and lights a cigarette.
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Surely those must be signs of life on Mars, no?
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This is clearly a fabrication by the bush adminstration to divert attention from new orleans and iraq
/michaelmoore
HA! Do you think I was born yesterday? Everyone knows that NASA has been driving the damn thing backwards to keep the mileage down.
the Mar's missions
I'm too shocked to make a proper grammar Nazi rant here.
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Wow, this looks very close to i picture I took during my cross-country trip a few years ago.
summer trip image
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The Wikipedia! The best karma whoring invention since Google.
-twb
It's taken such a long time because the 440 cubic inch V8 with the four-barrel carb that was supposed to power the rover threw a rod, and the thing has been running on solar panels ever since.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Rumour has it the FEMA director was last spotted there.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
WHY HASN'T BUSH DETECTED LIFE ON MARS YET?! IS IT BECAUSE THERE'S NO OIL ON MARS?
Surely he could've at the least found some carbon-based life...
[Lameness filter is lame.]
(Actually, no, I guess it's not. If I hadn't been sarcastic in my post, I guess it would've done a good job of stomping out a lame Bush-is-evil whine.)
Fuck it
Spirit let two of her fingers get in front of the lens, ruining an otherwise breathtaking photo.
The shareholder is always right.
To comply with the GPL full source code was shipped with the rovers.
All you need to do is go up to Spirit and retrieve the CD in the left front hubcap.
BTW: while you are doing this, NASA would be grateful if you could bring back a few kilograms of assorted mars rock.
Wake me when they decend into "Wife Valley"
Hmm. That picture seems to show that there is an exposed 'joy stick'-like controller on the outside of the rover. I have to take this design decision by NASA into serious question. Didn't anyone over there consider the possibility of martians hijacking the rover and using it for their own evil purposes. The rover should be bristling with guns, not unprotected control mechanisms! I'm agape with astonishment!