Five years on Mars

[szasz]

Five years ago, Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars. While they're getting pretty broken down and rickety, they're still functioning despite their expected lifetime of a few months. This is an amazing testament to these vehicles roaming around another planet and to the people here on earth controlling and maintaining them.

I watched a TV special

Comments

[mad_eponine]

That *is* poignant and more than a little melancholy that think they will call home and nobody will answer.

[szasz]

That bit was the part that got an emotional response from me. I do tend to anthropomorphize.