It was the little engine that could, except this one could do it from Mars for nearly five and a half years; far longer than its originally anticipated mission of ninety days.
Yesterday, NASA pronounced the Spirit Mars rover dead and ended attempts to contact it after the robot stopped phoning home on March 22, 2010.A quietly heroic voice in the night sky has fallen silent and a world away, things are a little bleaker.
Here is a gallery of this craft's finer moments.
That is kind of sad. Great work though.
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