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Gosh, I just saw that documentary too !

They had it at the library, and it was released right around when they had been up there for 5 years. It's a totally super show, with the ever-funky Steve Squires giving the real lowdown on things.

Spirit was the one that had problems. It got stuck in the sand, and thus could not get to a parking place for the winter where it's solar cells were tilted sufficiently towards the sun to keep it's heaters going.

After 4 1/2 years, it froze to death.

What got to me was the loooong drives they would have to do, out across otherwise uninteresting terrain, in order to get to the next crater of interest.

I think they did one drive that took 2 years.

thank you for your words. you and i think terribly alike! i, at one time, would have launched off at these people and made them have a reason not to like me. or worse, i'd bend over backwards being extra nice so they'd like me. now i let it hurt, but then i move on. i can't change other people's minds. i can only live my life in the best way i know how.