The Rovers are inheritors of the odds turning from bad to good, considering the luck of most of the other Martian Projects!!!
Jerry
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Spirit Gets A Dust Devil Once-Over
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:47:12 -0800 (PST), Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Squyres couldn't gauge the chance of what he called a "miracle cleaning event" - akin to what occurred months ago on Opportunity, its sister robot on the other side of Mars. "If it happens, I'll take it!"
Surviving landing. Landing in craters. Landing near at least one meteorite. Surviving loooooong
after the hoped-for mission lenght. Getting free cleanings from dust devils. It is just insane how
lucky and successful these rovers have been!
This site has an actual photo of one of the dust devils:
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1483&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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