opportunitygrrl, they're talking about you again

[davidlevine]

"One terrible day we got stuck in a sand dune... What we had to do was simulate on the ground the predicament we had gotten into on Mars... trying to find the optimal way to extract a robot from a sand dune on another planet. After two and a half weeks of experimentation, we found the optimal technique.

"Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it."

- Steven Squyres, scientific principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers Project, during his lecture "Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet," at Washington University in St. Louis on February 8.

Comments

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

I use the Martian method in snow drifts. Who knew it was NASA approved?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Oh, to be a rocket scientist...