Mars and Me

Yestersol's drive went splendidly, covering 88.528m. This is close to the theoretical maximum for the sol (based on the drive time), an...

Today's the first day of our Rover Driver Exchange Program, which is what I've dubbed Eric and Chris's experiment in switching r...

Once again, things have gotten a little too routine, so we've been asked for something unusual. They want to MTES a couple of nearby ro...

The drive sequence is coming along fine when I show up. Not much of a surprise. John seems to be a little irritated that I'm there, as ...

Art's complaining again that he never gets to drive, but today we should be able to put a stop to that. The drive we're planning sh...

No rover driver needed today -- again -- though this will probably be the last day that happens for a while. So it's a short day for me...

Chris tells me there's a bet on: after Opportunity's record-setting drive, some of the Opportunity scientists bet that Opportunity w...

The sequencing MSA is populated but unusually calm when I walk in. "Why isn't anybody panicking?" I ask. Turns out it's a...

Ashitey and I come in early again, continuing his education as a rover planner. Today he's primary, and I'm shadowing him. I'm...

Saina Ghandchi's father died. Saina's a TUL, one of the more high-pressure jobs on the uplink team, and she's here anyway. She...

On my way in, Ben Toyoshima says, "Hey, I saw your TV interview on Life & Times the other night -- you were pretty good!" Wo...

Today something registers on me for the first time -- something that's been there since we switched back to Earth time, but I only just ...

One of the things I tried to do better than on any of my previous projects when developing RoSE was: write better error messages. I've ...

I take the day off. I'd kind of forgotten you could do that.

As I enter the fourth-floor door, Ray Arvidson is exiting. "Hi, Ray!" I say pleasantly. Grumpy Ray says nothing. That usually m...

The good news is, we got the front hazcam images showing we're aimed right at Route66. The bad news is, we didn't perform the final...

I'm putting my stuff away when John Grant knocks on the door. "Did we make it?" he asks. "I don't know," I tel...

We went 37m yestersol, bringing us to 565 of the needed 600. They'll make it nextersol. If only I were going to be driving. Oh, well....

Today Jason Fox becomes the latest in a long line of people to ask, "Don't you ever take days off?" Not yet, I don't. Bu...

I'm not on shift, but I know that if I start sleeping in, it will be twice as hard to go back to getting up early. So I set the alarm f...