Those two names were made for Nasa Mission: Mars Exploration Rover. Spirit was the first of the two rovers to land. Its landing was on January 4, 2004, and Opportunity landed on January 24, 2004. They still work two this day. They have metal pieces of the fallen World Trade Center on them. They are twin rovers and landed on opposite ends of Mars. They are referred to as feminine. Their names were decided by the winner of an essay contest (her name: Sofi Collis). Spirit’s launch patch is this (with Marvin) 
,and Opportunity’s launch patch is this (with Daffy) 
. To find out more, go here or here if you want to read about it; And to watch to find out more, go here or here.
Archive for February, 2007
Spirit and Opportunity
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Happy Groundbeef Day
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007Well, Groundhog Day has passed. Phil Conners has finally waken up, and Punxsutawney Phil says (in groundhogees) that there will be six more weeks of winter. But, instead of a blizzard, here in St. Paul, it -8 wind-chill at noon. You might think you need to put that Groundhog Day movie away (which you do) but the celebrations don’t end there. Today is Ground-beef Day. Ground-beef Day is held in honor of all the cows that are either being deep-fat fried at Burger King, or are in tacos in Mexico.