NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will finish its 1,000th Martian day Thursday this week (November 2nd, 2006). I thought this was worthy of a celebration and thus… “blog it Phil…” Imagine, it was originally planned for 90 Marian days only.
Spirit landed inside Mars' Gusev Crater on Jan. 3, 2004, PST (Jan. 4 Universal Time). Each Martian day is longer than an Earth day, lasting 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds. That means that in Earth days, Spirit has been on Mars about 1,026 days.
Happy Birthday MERS… on Mars… Stay cool…
Phil
Spirit landed inside Mars' Gusev Crater on Jan. 3, 2004, PST (Jan. 4 Universal Time). Each Martian day is longer than an Earth day, lasting 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds. That means that in Earth days, Spirit has been on Mars about 1,026 days.
Happy Birthday MERS… on Mars… Stay cool…
Phil
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