Saturday, March 18, 2006

One of Mars Rover's Wheels Stops Working

One of the Mars rover Spirit's wheels has stopped working and the solar-powered robot must use its five other wheels to drag itself up a slope to catch enough sunshine to keep operating in the descending Martian winter, NASA said Friday.

The right front wheel previously had an episode of balkiness but this week the motor that turns the wheel stopped working, the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That reminds me a little about the psuedo-deity of the libs, Bill Clinton. When Clinton left office, he left a republican senate, house, executive, and the chance at a republican judiciary. When Clinton left, the Democrat rover had only two wheels working: the obviously lib media and the aclu traitors.

Mike at the top of the arc

Anonymous said...

That reminds me a little about the psuedo-deity of the libs, Bill Clinton. When Clinton left office, he left a republican senate, house, executive, and the chance at a republican judiciary. When Clinton left, the Democrat rover had only two wheels working: the obviously lib media and the aclu traitors.

Mike at the top of the arc