One possibility is that it's the last layer to form. It speaks to yet another water episode. |
Our current focus is to drive like hell … and try to get [Spirit] to safe winter havens before the power situation gets really bad. |
Our requirement for how far we should be able to traverse over the course of the mission, was 600 meters. These hills are five times that far away. OK, so don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills. |
Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery. |
So don't sit here and think, 'Oh, we're going to go to the hills.' We're going to go 'toward' the hills, |
So expect to see a very big panorama from this spot. |
So there's enough to keep us busy here for quite a long time. |
Spirit has given us a wonderful window into the very ancient past of Mars. It was a violent place, a place where meteorite impacts, volcanic explosions happened frequently, where hot stuff was raining from the sky. |
Spirit is our tough, hardworking robot. Opportunity looks like she just came off the showroom floor, clean and pretty. |
That kind of stuff is hard enough to drive in with six wheels, and with five it was just about impossible. It was really frustrating, being that close to the place we wanted to get to … and not being able to reach it. |
That very rugged stuff. There is a guy on our team who actually calls this the geologic promised land. I don't know if it's going to turn out to be that good or not and I don't know if we'll ever get there, but it certainly looks interesting. |
That was waiting to bite us. If Opportunity had landed first, it would have had the same problem. |
That'd be interesting too, though [it would] tell us less about Mars than if they're martian rocks. |
That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this is a heck of a climb. |
That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this was a heck of a climb, |