They'll Find Those Martians Eventually!!

Remember way back when... when NASA sent some remote control cars to roam around on another planet. Well, it happened almost 3 years ago now! And guess what... both of the Mars Exploration Rovers are still operational at this point. Originally expected to function for a period of roughly 90 days... the rovers are both past the 1000 day mark on our little red neighbor. I guess NASA was a little off on their numbers again... in a good way this time!

I remember checking the internet daily during the rovers' first few days on Mars. I just thought it was so sweet that we would be able to land a little robot on a planet farther away than most of us can truly comprehend. And then after it's there... be able to talk back and forth with it. We'd tell it where to go... what to do... and to send back pictures like it was on vacation! Just truly awesome!

Check out this video that NASA has posted on their site. They call it "90 Days In 90 Seconds"... pretty cool when you think about what and where you are looking at!!!

And here is some other information that you might find interesting... the rover "Spirit" has traversed nearly 4.5 miles, while it's counterpart "Opportunity" is now just past 5.5 miles and approaching a huge crater. Check out their traverse maps.