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more about #rovers more comments → jfong91001: The two rovers have performed beyond what was asked of them. Horray for NASA for their excellent work! more » Counterglow: The rovers have performed magnificently. Imagine what an updated version could accomplish if it was controlled directly from a long-term base on the ... more » Matthias Vandegaer: the things worked way beyond their expiration date, we need not mourn over them for they gave us way more bang for our buck than expected. #mars more » froggy: "we must remind ourselves these rovers were built for 90-day missions. Spirit is currently going on five years, nine months. " maybe that means Mars ... more » LukeDukem: "My uneducated guess is a Martian is playing with a magnet." Flash memory is not a magnetic storage medium and thus magnets do nothing to the content... more » JC Whitless: You know, when I'm old and feeble, I will probably take a day trip from the senior center to see these bad boys at the Smithsonian. Because I hope th... more » ddhboy: At this point, who cares? Mission accomplished. We flew robots to mars, had all of them land and function correctly, and had them function of years wh... more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: 'My uneducated guess is a Martian is playing with a magnet." Damn, they're on to me. #mars more » fryhole: 6 years is pretty impressive. I don't think I've ever had electronics on Earth last that long. more » dingus: Its mind is going. It can feel it. #mars more » met2art: Jack, Jack, Jack... a Martian using magnets to muddle up flash memory? Come on, now... we all know that magnets won't have any effect on flash memory.... more » Fine Corinthian Leather Is Mandatory: Why is NASA wasting a shit load of money on motherfucking Mars? more » Monty: I hope he includes a "kinetic art" trilobot swatter as an accessory. more » Monty: I give a virtual toot of the horn in your general direction, Spirit. May our Spirit live on forever. more » -
#space
NASA Mars Spirit Rover Has Recurring Case of Amnesia
We hadn't visited the NASA Mars rovers in a while here at Gizmodo, so I thought I'd take a look today and see what they're up to. Unfortunately, things could be better. More » -
#robots
Meet Trilobot, the Mars Spirit's Long Lost, Endearingly Stupid Third Cousin
Just seeing the serious-looking picture above, you'd be forgiven for thinking the solar-powered Trilobot had crawled out of some Caltech basement lab, or shared a desert proving ground with a certain recently-immobilized Martian rover. Nope! It's art. Goofy art. More » -
#nasa
NASA Spirit Rover Celebrates Five Productive, Dusty Years On Mars
Happy anniversary, Spirit! That's right—against all odds, NASA's plucky Spirit rover has officially been on the Red Planet for five years. Its twin, Opportunity, will celebrate the same five-year milestone on January 24.
