Happy Birthday Opportunity

Other NASA Discussion
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Amazing. Both rovers are four earth years old.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

Congrats NASA

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But how old are they in Martian years? :wink:

(2.12, by my calculation…)

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As of noon (UTC) today, Spirit and Opportunity are 1444 and 1423 sols (Martian days) old, respectively. And they are both acting quite spry for their ages. :slight_smile:

-dave

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Ahahahahaha!!! Has anyone ever seen the launch patches for those 2 rovers?

Awesome!!!

Spirit:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Nasa_mer_marvin.jpg/250px-Nasa_mer_marvin.jpg

Opportunity:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Nasa_mer_daffy.jpg/250px-Nasa_mer_daffy.jpg

[LEFT]Congrats to Dave and the rest of the crew over at NASA that made the past 4 years possible over there on the red planet! :cool: [/LEFT]

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Congrats to Dave and the rest of the crew over at NASA that made the past 4 years possible over there on the red planet!

They’ve got a lot of soul. Get it? soul - sol…see?

Congratulations and here’s to more nail biting adventures.