NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is on the move again (Free at last :)

[wakeme2008]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050605/sc_nm/space_mars_dc_1

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is on the move again

1 hour, 46 minutes ago

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is making tracks across the Martian landscape again, after nearly five weeks stuck in a sand dune, engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said on Sunday.

NASA engineers cheered this weekend when images returned from Mars showed the six-wheeled geological research vehicle was finally freed from the dune and making tracks, according to a posting on the JPL Web site (www.jpl.nasa.gov).

...more at link.....

they keep going and going and going......

[tk2kewl]

1. Cool. I thought it was toast.

[ovidsen]

2. Amazing! Check out this mission blog.

The fact that this robot explorer is still cruising restores my faith in both humans and science.

http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/

Keep on truckin'

[theHandpuppet]

3. Cool! Thanks for the link

I've bookmarked this one. :)

[wakeme2008]

4. Morning kick for Opportunity :) nt

[bluecrush]

5. More badly needed good news for NASA.

Sometimes things go better than planned.