Mars Probe May Have Spotted Sojourner Rover 149
Maggie McKee writes "NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted the tiny, toaster oven-sized Sojourner rover just a few meters away from its companion, the Mars Pathfinder lander. It appears to have crawled there in an attempt to re-establish contact with the lander after the lander had already died.
But the pictures aren't clear enough to definitively ID the rover, and it's possible Sojourner simply took off on its own. If it were miraculously still alive after 10 years, it could be 3 kilometers away from Pathfinder — and probably impossible to find, even with MRO."
I spy (Score:4, Funny)
SOJOURNER? Yay!
Rover (Score:5, Funny)
HTML version of Sojourner pic (Score:5, Funny)
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;-)
Dad .. Dad ???? (Score:4, Funny)
Batteries not included (Score:3, Funny)
Rovers are signs of intelligent life! (Score:5, Funny)
wow, this is actually kind of sad.... (Score:5, Funny)
Hi Martians! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm a little robot who is lost.
I'm a little robot who is lost from Earth.
If I'm a little robot who is found, please call the interstellar hot line 1-800-LOSTROBOTS.
Callous and heartless (Score:5, Funny)
Two probes enter (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dad .. Dad ???? (Score:3, Funny)
HOLY CRAP (Score:5, Funny)
is that a face I see on Mars?
Stop wasting this technology on other planets (Score:5, Funny)
GAAAAH!
That's because you crazy. (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Callous and heartless (Score:5, Funny)
It will meet up with Spirit and together they will party and have children. They are the Adam and Eve of Mars. 6000 years from now billions of robots will read about them in Genesis of the Mars Bible. But the Mars evolutionists will insist Sojourner evolved from toasters and staplers instead of having a Creator (JPL).
Re:The ultimate scavenger hunt (Score:3, Funny)
not a spacecraft... (Score:2, Funny)