Five Years On Mars

In January, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity landing on Mars, and the twin rovers will continue with their newest adventures.

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Science & Technology

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• NASA
• Mars
• science
• spirit
• opportunity
• jpl
• rover
• anniversary
• exploration
• space
• planet

[custoclassic]

2050 - 1st landing on Mars :D

[lpmv]

go go go NASA !! =P

[poleeed]

I dont care if the US or japan or whoever lands on mars. i just want to see a human up there.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@JackBlair2 why the hell would you be mad at space exploration receiving more funding?

[KarbineKyle]

INCREDIBLE! What a mysterious & beautiful planet! I think that what we expect to find, but don't, or just weren't close enough, or maybe just in the wrong place at the wrong time, I look at that in a positive way. It means we can explore even more outstanding mysteries on other worlds, even our own, & can show us how much we can achieve when we really put our minds & effort into exploration of such mystery! There's so much more to explore, & learn! To me, that makes exploration worth living for!

[JackBlair2]

This is such BS. They always underestimate the lifespan of these things, so that when they last longer, they can feign surprise - justifies the whole project's existence, thus the funding keeps rolling in.

[MazeleyFanClub]

Awesome.

[Jillyrocks246]

im doing a report on Mars and this is a good video

[Clarknipolo]

life on mars there is life on mars

[dinmagic]

But with man missions on mars we can do more stuff in days than what the rovers can in months or years. It´s a risk but we can collect scientific information much much faster than a rover can.

[Dhalgren01]

JPL and NASA - showing once again that unmanned missions of our solar system have provided valuable scientific knowledge and superior costs-effectiveness. 5 years for these 2 rovers and their support staff costs $820 Million. Compare that to the $100-$500 Billion numbers floating around for a manned Mars exploration program. And no manned mission could duplicate what Voyager 1 & 2 accomplished in our lifetimes.

[dasheriff001]

WON'T HAPPEN