Mars Rover Spirit Down a Wheel

riflemann writes "NASA is reporting that two years into its 90-day mission, Spirit has lost one wheel and is now running on five wheels, dragging the broken wheel. With this reduced mobiity, the rover still needs to make its way to a slope where it can catch enough sun over the Martian winter to keep it operating. 'Even though the rovers are well past their original design life, they still have plenty of capability to conduct outstanding science on Mars.', says project leader Dr. John Callas."

Comments

Re:Not so surprising

[mtdnelson]

...and I didn't confuse English with Metric measurments

That's lucky, because one is an adjective describing things from England, and the other is a system for defining measurements. :o)

Re:I'll take the Offtopic hit for this

[LeonGeeste]

Gee, thanks, moron, for explaining how to put in a line break. Too bad the question was *why* not *how*. Try again, and this time, read the fucking question.

Re:I'll take the Offtopic hit for this

[DaveAtFraud]

Gee, thanks, moron, for explaining how to put in a line break. Too bad the question was *why* not *how*. Try again, and this time, read the fucking question.

Gee asshole, why don't you keep the discussion civil? If that's actually your STUPID question, the answer is...

Drum roll, please...

because that's the way the original poster wanted it. (DUH!)

I didn't think someone would be so utterly lacking in intelligence as to ask that question so I replied to the one technical question I thought someone might validly ask.

In the mean time, I'll see if there is some way to transfer some karma points to you. I've heard if you collect enough of them you can use them to get a clue. You obviously need one.

Cheers,
Dave