[HamiltonJay]

Miracles?

They just shot 2 slugs into space, landed them on a foreign planet that 1/2 the attempts to reach have failed, had them land on the planet almost exactly where we wanted them to.... And despite travelling for 8 months in space and how many millions of miles they landed, and for the most part are operating properly....

I don't know what counts as miracles in your book, but do the statistical odds that we would get one of these things to even get to mars and answer, much less both and both still work?

[meanie monster]

I saw on PBS that a lot of software was programmed during flight from earth to mars. They can program them from earth.