RIP: Spirit Mars rover

[cartman]

NASA has decided to stop listening for signals from the Rover. It has been almost a year since the last signals were received. The rover had a great six year run, especially considering it was only supposed to last three months.

NASA lets go of Spirit | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/25/nasa-lets-go-of-spirit/)

[Kodos]

Enjoy your retirement, Spirit!

[Autumn]

That has been one of the amazing stories of the last decade, really.

[CrimsonFox]

This makes me sad. Farewell Mars Patrol...

Are they just closing down NASA or what? I mean why stop listening?

[JPhillips]

Eventually you need to free up the studio for other movies.

[Lathum]

So what exactly was learned from this project?

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

The Spirit rover is the only one not working. It had been converted to a stationary platform over one year ago due to wheel operation issues. The Opportunity rover is still working well and proceeding towards a large crater called Endeavour Crater........

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/opportunity-update.html

[kingfc22]

So what exactly was learned from this project?

That there is no life on Mars.

[MrBug708]

So does that mean Wolowitz needs a new job?

[CrimsonFox]

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[M GO BLUE!!!]

That there is no life on Mars.

So Camper just had the wrong planet?

[JediKooter]

Well damn. It had a great run though, sorry to see it has been shut down.

I'm now looking forward to the Dawn mission and the New Horizons mission.

[Mustang]

So what exactly was learned from this project?

They learned how to, pump up the volume, pump up the volume, pump up the volume and dance dance.