Mars and Me

And so it was just about this time, five years ago, that Spirit took the Husband Hill panorama -- a beautiful color panorama taken from the...

Coincidentally, my last drive was performed without the assistance of the ultimate FHAZ, and so must this one be. Spirit's just a few m...

I've been out for a while because of my shoulder surgery, and now, for the next six weeks, I'll have to drive the rover with my arm ...

The scientists are happier than I am. In and of itself, that's an okay state of affairs; I'd rather have it that way than the rever...

The Erebus Highway drive worked splendidly, putting us right where it was supposed to. Now, back on the other side of the world, I get to h...

Today is Erebus Highway Day. I have a feeling about this. The last few drives have all been going great; we're really on a roll. And ...

Thisol's drive shapes up to be rather dull. We didn't get drive-direction PCAMs for some reason, so we're limited to the NCAM m...

No rover driving today. Nobody thought to tell me or Cooper -- though, really, we could have figured it out if we'd looked at a (Mars) ...

Just in front of Spirit are a couple of tasty-looking rocks -- concave, with some kind of striations, almost as if they were wheel prints. ...

We're not finished being paranoid yet, so thisol's drive is still circumscribed. Callas had a 5m drive in mind, but a 5m drive woul...

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...