Wintry Doom Looms for Mars Spirit Rover

[storymaze]

NASA's Mars Spirit Rover, now a stationary probe stuck in the sands of the Red Planet, may not survive the Martian Winter.
If you'll remember, Spirit suffered devastating wheel breakage late last year, and in January NASA officially christened the eternally immobilized rover as a "stationary probe," doomed to live of the remainder of its days stuck

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[electric_kite]

goodnight, sweet prince. D:

[haruhiko]

;_______;

Don't know if you'd ever seen this or not.....by xkcd.

[ubiquitous_a]

Re: Don't know if you'd ever seen this or not.....by xkcd.

[castalianspring]

For all who are going to read/reread the comic and get all sad, there is fixit fic: read The Battersea Home for Lost Robots (Dr Who/XKCD crossover).

Re: Don't know if you'd ever seen this or not.....by xkcd.

[gmonkey42]

Awww! Now I feel better :)

Re: Don't know if you'd ever seen this or not.....by xkcd.

[ubiquitous_a]

Someone did a happier re-write of the comic itself as well. :)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/spirit_rewrite_unknown_author.png

[elektra_lyte]

:'(