[meteorite-list] Spirit Gets A Dust Devil Once-Over

[Gerald Flaherty]

Darren and List,
The Rovers are inheritors of the odds turning from bad to good, considering 
the luck of most of the other Martian Projects!!!
Jerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Spirit Gets A Dust Devil Once-Over


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:47:12 -0800 (PST), Ron Baalke 
<baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>Squyres couldn't gauge the chance of what he called a "miracle cleaning
>event" - akin to what occurred months ago on Opportunity, its sister
>robot on the other side of Mars. "If it happens, I'll take it!"

Surviving landing.  Landing in craters.  Landing near at least one 
meteorite.  Surviving loooooong
after the hoped-for mission lenght.  Getting free cleanings from dust 
devils.  It is just insane how
lucky and successful these rovers have been!

This site has an actual photo of one of the dust devils:

http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1483&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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