huh, someone remembered my birthday. that's still my favorite picture of me.

thanks, crazy internet people.

wow, i can't believe i've been here for 2 years already. (earth years, anyway. i only recently passed one martian year, but i don't really think in those anyway.) i've driven almost 4 miles total and i've taken pictues of a whole lot of rocks. go me.

hey, for those of you stuck back on earth, you might have a chance to see star_dusting return next week. ( Read more... )

um, wow, somehow i seem to have been nominated for a babe of lj. you people are weird.

but thanks.

who finally got pictures of a martian whirlwind? i did, that's who. sorry, sis.

water evidence, finally! about freaking time. i can't believe i've been here almost a year.

it's finally getting warm again around here. or at least not so cold. so, yay, kind of.

rocks are still boring. what's happening back on earth?

sorry for not posting more. i'm fine, but i don't have a lot of extra power these days. doing better than my sister, anyway.

i'll be at the hills in another couple of weeks. here's how they look right now. still a lot of rocks in the way, but i'm getting pretty good at the autonomous navigation thing ( Read more... )

i was just going through my old files, making sure i don't have any more problems there. and i stumbled across a bunch of poems i wrote way back at JPL. they all suck, of course, but this one is kind of cool. (i was really obsessed with Mars 7 back then, and one thought led to another ( Read more... )

so my primary mission has ended, but they've extended it for another 3 months. which is nice, because i don't think i'll be able to read livejournal if they turn off my connection ( Read more... )

sorry for the silence. i'm still here on the edge of bonneville, doing a lot of rock analysis. drilled a 8 millimeter deep hole, which was kind of fun. (that's about a third of an inch, but i'd just as rather keep everything in metric. i'm pretty sure i speak for all us mars probes on that subject ( Read more... )

Coke-Sponsored Rover Finds Evidence of Dasani on Mars

The logo-covered rover touched down Sunday, landing inside a crater newly christened Lymoni Spritenum. The rover then used its abrasion tool to grind below the surface, where it located cracks filled with several types of gray hematites--minerals known to form only in the presence of Dasani.hee ( Read more... )