Frankly that does not sound posssible.

Cool, lets go !

There are a million factors afecting how the rovers operate.
At the start they had about 900 watt hours, in midwinter about 240, so 492 is pretty good, enabling two 70m drives back to back, which is what most of us and the rover team wants.

Can you supply a reference to backup that statement ?

Those grains look too big to have been missed before launch, most of the capsule appears to be squeaky clean, with a few dust grains in there collected as it landed, well lets hope for the best.

I doubt there can ever be a wheeled vehicle that cannot be trapped in some hellish sand trap. No doubt the drivers though will be very carefull.

"Weighing almost a ton, the nuclear-isotope-powered is set for launch in the fall of next year, with landing on Mars almost a year after that."

They missed a word out in that scentence, and aren't they supposed to be using tonnes ?.............

It's often hard on Mars and indeed Titan to appeciate the size of objects as there is not often anything man made to provide the scale. Remember when we saw the "cliffs" in Oppy's landing crater, and they were like a few cm high in reality, so Ants' comparison is awesome !

Is Oppy going slightly uphill ?

What is the actual size of the HGAS ?

In Florida ?

It's cool to learn something new about Mars.

Squished by CO2

So what happens when all the water is used up, if that is possible, could there be a catastrophic collapse ?

Very nice !

22 is my lucky number, so all will be well !

So March 30th then.........

When was the last signal recived from Spirit ?

Mine too.

I thought it was a small satellite.....
Congradulations !

Surely Doug you mean UK airspace is open for businesss again, by domestic and foreign airlines.......

I did not realise they had done this in 08 and 09 too.

I can't use FB and You Tube at work......

I am British and can't stand marmite, so there.

Don't burn your feet on the beach sand. This happened to a guy I know's kids. He eventually came back to the UK as the weather was just too damn hot.