Mines a glass of the pure water...thankyou.

I used to have a concrete Black Cat.

Amazingly cool they can even have an escape plan if the engine conks out.

I saw the Lightning take off at a few airshows, almost before the end of the runway it went into about an 85 degree climb, and was gone......

As the sun gets higher with the seasons' progression, will we get better pictures ?

I can't wait to receive mine !

Hayabusa is a spaceprobe miracle, if it could speak, after releasing the capsule, it would say "now I can die !", before quietly expiring, having amazingly achived it's objective.

Yes the tilt is South, time, energy and luck ran out for getting Spirit into a Northerly tilt. A bit like what happened to Phoenix, in the end sunlight rules what you can do and cannnot do.

I assume they will have time to upload the table before spirit goes "night night" ?

A friend of mine who should know better said it was a military payload on a Saturn V.....I think he might have been on the "red juice" the night before......He saw it launch as he lives only 12 miles away.

I know it makes scense to plunge into Saturn, my original comments were more a knee jerk reaction on hearing they were going for the plunge.

Lots of unknowns..........

She just asked the question.

Wow he noticed the colour change in 2002 and is only telling it now ?

Oh no....I just read they are to plunge Cassini into Saturn in 2017 !

Awesome, 7 years.

We would not want to jam a wheel up again with a potato would we ?

This is what I expected. Power is too low and only 4 wheels is not good for exctraction. Now we wait a while and we can see dust drifts forming etc . pics pics pics.

Thank you for the update. One point though, Oddy does hail Phoenix actively though doen't she ?

The animation in post #642 was too fast and too dark on my PC, I could not "see" the wheels clearly at all. Can a lightened, slowed down gif be made please ?

Maybe they spotted a big volcano.....oh wait.....nevermind.

Well it looks to me like they can drive out backwards

Hey the watt hours are only 225 ! What was the low value last winter ?

I think the new story will be can the lander Spirit survive the winter. Pictures pictures !

I think the rover team will be dismayed for someone to suggest there is no drive plan......