[KevinDavis]

Man needs to reach higher and farther to accomplish the impossible.

[KevinDavis]

[pissant]

To the red planet we go.

[jmcenanly]

As of April 10, the Spirit rover had covered about 7,092.29 meters (4.41 miles), after having been on Mars since January 2004. The Apollo 17 astronauts covered roughly the same distance in the course of an afternoon. Robots make great assistants, but they will not replace us.