Go Get 'Em, Rover
Keep on trucking, little dude.
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is about to set off on what may be its final odyssey - a seven-mile (11.3 km) jaunt to a crater around 20 times larger than the Victoria Crater from which it extricated itself earlier this month. The distant feature, dubbed Endeavour, is 13.7 miles (22 km) across and 1,000 ft (300m) deep. It's …
I hope they make it, as an example of an engineering / scientific feat going above and beyond, you can't get a better example than the rovers.
I say, let em run till they can't run any more!
I hope whoever designed those beauties have gotten some nice pay raises since they landed.
Remember that Spirit and Opportunity were the first project to DISMISS with NASA's ill-fated "Better, Faster, Cheaper" mentality of cost-cutting, compressed testing,and lack of oversight?
And now we get more science and discovery than we had ever hoped for or even dreamed of. NASA CAN build good stuff given the time and budget...time to remember that when budgets come round...