Mars Probe May Have Spotted Sojourner Rover

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 12, 2007 @05:29AM from the born-free-as-free-as-the-wind-blows dept.

Maggie McKee writes "NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted the tiny, toaster oven-sized Sojourner rover just a few meters away from its companion, the Mars Pathfinder lander. It appears to have crawled there in an attempt to re-establish contact with the lander after the lander had already died. But the pictures aren't clear enough to definitively ID the rover, and it's possible Sojourner simply took off on its own. If it were miraculously still alive after 10 years, it could be 3 kilometers away from Pathfinder — and probably impossible to find, even with MRO."

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Re:wow... its not impossible by x2A · 2007-01-12 05:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"No Mom, I was just checking for probes!"

Yeah right, of CAUSE that's what you were doing. Now go wash your hands.

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in other news ... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-12 06:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bush claims that Sojourner has been taken over by 'Axis of Evil', and orders whole area sprayed with cannon fire. Then claims massive victory.