New York Times (May 29)
2011/ 05/ 30 by jd in Global News
NASA has given up the search for Spirit, the Mars Rover whose 3-month mission in 2004 grew into 6 years of plentiful data gathering. “This is not like calling off the search for a missing human explorer. And yet it feels similar, even though Spirit is a six-wheeled robotic vehicle….it is strangely easy to personify Spirit. Over the years, it has seemed intrepid, valiant, determined. It has no consciousness, but there has been something self-knowing in the photographs it has taken of itself, with Mars in the background.”
