Rovers - He Or She? Options

[Tman]

I'm still confused about the gender of Spirit and Oppy! What the consent about? If Spirit female (so I think) then make it sense to keep quiet about her age and make she younger

No kidding! I would like to know which personal pronoun (she, her or he, his etc.) I have to use by Spirit's and Oppy's gender definitely?

[hendric]

Mike,
Oh come on, anything that

1. Stops talking to you for days, for no reason you can figure out.

2. Breaks a wheel, and has to limp around.

3. Is totally beautiful.

4. Shows you things you've never seen before ahem.

and

5. Constantly looks at themselves to check on how they look...

...simply must be feminine!

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

But in a very real sense, these plucky rovers *are* vessels -- of our imaginations, hopes and dreams.

Thank you for this discution, especially dvandorn for the poetical quote above. After all, being scienific and "rational" does not forbid to be human beings with hopes, emotions and dreams. And what a wonderful dream is going true, with the rovers on Mars.

But to solve the matter itself, I suggest to come back to the scientific method: observation. Wait that a russian "he" rover meets an american "she" rover, and look what happens.