Mars rovers celebrate 1 year on mars
4 January 2005
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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It is quite an impressive feat of engineering to think that the NASA/JPL Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have lasted a year on the Red Planet. It is pretty tough place to hang out in with such cold wind, dusty and gravelly ground and plenty of UV with not much atmosphere. JPL's rover project manager Jim Erickson explained to NASA that "The rovers are both in amazingly good shape for their age," he explained further that "The twins sailed through the worst of the martian winter with flying colors, and spring is coming. Both rovers are in strong positions to continue exploring, but we can't give you any guarantees."
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