Mars Rover Update–Rockin’ On the Red World: It’s costing $820 million. The technology is fabulous. And we’re learning a lot about…rocks. NASA’s got two rovers on the planet Mars and in the past few days both have dedicated their little robot efforts to drilling and scanning the hard stuff. Spirit drilled a hole, and Opportunity did some hi-tech caressing. No results yet, but don’t get too excited. Coming up: Spirit will amble over to a crater dubbed Bonneville, about 1150 feet away. If the rover gets there that will set a new record for distance traveled on Mars. Records. That’s the sort of stuff TWC wants out of this mission. And if NASA was really cool, Spirit would pop some wheelies on the way….



Drilling on Mars: “This won’t hurt a bit….”