Mars and Me

We've had some blind students working with the project to make the Web pages more accessible. They've also been observing ops for a...

I don't remember the last time this happened. We appear to have entirely lost the first part of the pass, leaving us nearly blind. We ...

Unfortunately, the "Scotty" target we picked out last time doesn't seem to be worthy of more detailed study. So we won't ...

After all that ... after all that work, we barely even moved. The first step of the drive was a 15-degree turn-in-place -- from 150 degrees...

The weekend's drive went splendidly, racking up 32m. And we're poised to do it again, with a broad lane continuing before us. Excep...

I envy Cooper and Jeng. Yestersol they were pushed pretty hard to improve our rate of travel while remaining compliant with the Rules of th...

I was worried about yestersol's drive -- needlessly, as it turns out. (I can't believe I'm still doing that.) It went damn nea...

Surprisingly, visodom performed well through the entire drive yestersol. We'd been worried visodom wouldn't work reliably with noth...

I come in early to get a jump on things. This was a mistake -- the downlink's been delayed (Spirit's data was queued ahead of ours ...

Somewhat to my surprise, the drive executed quite well. We made the whole 15m, right along the intended path, so we're just continuing ...

I've got my clock/radio tuned to the news station, so I'm literally awakened by the news that my favorite city in the world, London,...

It's the fifth of July. Jim Erickson had asked me to check out the drive results yesterday so that we'd have a coherent story going...

Cooper had a car accident. I figured it was only a matter of time before this happened to one of us, and I'm glad it wasn't I. The...

Bad news: in about ten days, Khaled will be a Rover Planner no more. He's leaving, taking over the role of coordinating the flight soft...

This is one of the simplest days I've had in a long time: just a tool change from APXS to MB, continuing our exploration of the soil nea...

Ah, that feels better. The drive went just exactly as planned; the old track, tailings, and wide swaths of undisturbed soil are within the...

Six fucking centimeters. That's it. Six fucking centimeters is all the distance we made yestersol. It's my fault. In the drive se...

Yestersol was a two-sol plan and tomorrow's a three-sol weekend plan; we just have a pre-planning meeting today. Assuming none of our p...

It's my first sol driving the rovers since I came back from jury duty, and I've switched to Opportunity -- my first sol on this rove...

"My Ph.D. thesis was on writing a program that would design robots for you," Chris says. "You'd tell it what you want, a...