Mars Rovers Celebrate Their 1000th Sol On Mars

Cherita Chen writes, "Yesterday NASA, Cornell University, and the USGS celebrated the Mars Exploration Rovers' 1000th Sol on the Red Planet. The first rover to land, Spirit, reached the 1000 Sol mark a few weeks ago while the planet was in Solar conjunction. 'Opportunity,' Spirit's twin, and the second lander to make the bounce to Mars, celebrated the milestone yesterday while sitting atop Victoria Crater on the other side of Mars. Both Rovers are still operational (though Spirit is limping) and are sending back valuable data. Not bad for what was slated to be a '90 Sol' mission."

Comments

Come On.

[Anonymous Coward]

Admit it, you're getting misty.

Re:Silly Jargon

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

You mean like:

using namespace Mars {
        "On the fifth day of their missions the Shock and Awe probes on Mars are doing fine. Shock is current exploring the northern polar cap and Awe is..."
}

using namespace Venus {
        "As we approach half way through Harsh Questioning's first day on Venus it has just circled successfully around a pool of molten lead..."
}

Yeah, that might work.