Mars and Me

First day of school. There's a line a mile long -- backed up all the way to the freeway -- along the road we share with a couple of loc...

Opportunity's recent reset -- her little fainting spell -- is still a mystery. As with the previous, similar anomalies, we suspect that...

Yestersol's ambitious drive accomplished little. But it's not our fault: as part of our post-Purgatory paranoia, Opportunity has be...

Ladies and gentlemen, Spirit has arrived. More or less. The science team certainly seems to think so, and sent out congratulatory email to t...

We made OK progress, about what we expected or a little less. The bad news is, the summit's about 45m away. That's more than Spiri...

Our previous drive went well. From here we can see what we think is the summit -- no more need to rely on uncertain orbital data for that, ...

Ray Arvidson says, "We'll be at the summit, if we're lucky, next week. Summit Two (this hill has two peaks, and that's the...

I'm back on Spirit. But what with the MRO launch usurping some of our comm passes, and the fact that we're in restricted sols anywa...

"Wow, Scott, you're batting a thousand this week." Jeff Favretto is right: I'm on a roll and I know it. Once again, Oppo...

At the SOWG meeting, Larry Soderblom asks if one of the RPs would give an assessment of yestersol's drive and give them a preview of wha...

"It's way too early to be driving rovers," mutters Jeff Favretto. I must agree. It's 07:00, and it's a tight sol -- ...

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 ...