July 15, 2006

Mars Rovers

Often when I think about space, it reminds me of the beloved Mars Rovers that I have followed since their initial landing on the Red Planet.

Today's news is that an ailing Spirit Rover is working hard to reach the proper location to weather the Martian winter. With 1 of 6 wheels out of commission, it is having a challenging time getting to the target destination. I'm hopeful!

I like this graphic from their website that tells what's going on with the Rovers.

It took me a while to figure it out, but I think that it is dark at Meridiani and light at Gusev at the moment. Congratulations to Spirit for working on Mars for 900 "sols" or Martian days. It's wonderful! Spirit must have the Maytag logo on it's butt.

2 comments:

boneman said...

A man goes into a bar with a monkey.
He orders a drink, and while he's drinking, the monkey jumps all
around the place.
The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then
grabs some sliced limes and eats them, then jumps onto the pool
table,grabs one of the billiard balls, sticks it in his mouth, and to
everyone's amazement, somehow swallows it whole. The bartender
screams at the guy, "Did you see what your monkeyjust did?"
The guy says "No, what?"
"He just ate the cue ball off my pool table ---- whole!"
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy, "he eats
everythingin sight, the little devil. Sorry. I'll pay for the cue ball
and
stuff."
He finishes his drink, pays his bill, pays for the stuff the monkey
ate, and then leaves.
Two weeks later he's in the bar again, and has his monkey with him.
He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again.
While the man is finishing his drink, the monkey finds a
maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt,
pulls it out,and eats it. Then the monkey finds a peanut, and again
sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is
disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey did now?" he asks. "No,
what?" replies the guy.
"Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry and a peanut up his butt, pulled
it out, and ate it!" said the bartender.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy.
"He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he had to
pass that cue ball, he measures everything first."

Found this and dragged it over to Morris' blog, and you were listed under funny, so, thought you'de like it, too.

DarrellH said...

That's really pretty funny!!!