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Thanks for the ping,

I just received advance copy of Steve Squyres introduction at tomorrows Mars press conference!

March 2, 2004, Mars Press Conference

Steve Squyres:

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. We are very, very pleased to call you here today to announce an historic finding reached after the most careful and painstaking analyses.

As you may or may not know, Opportunity traveled a little over 24 meters to reach a rock target called "Guadalupe" where the RAT was last used. Spirit on the other side of the planet Mars traveled over 111 meters to also reach a RAT target. As I’m sure you must know, each rover has six wheels. We have discovered that after multiplying distances traveled to date times the number of wheels on both rovers (one dozen) an unprecedented and historical event has occurred.

That event stunned us after we realized a uniquely human invention “the wheel” has now traveled over one mile across the surface of Mars. We have available photographic evidence of each meter traveled along with wheel slippage data adding additional certainty of this historical accomplishment.

Just downloaded as well are 66 new panoramic camera images of the historic, first ever sundial that humanity sent to another planet and inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun,” The sundials will continue to reveal the passage of the hours and seasons as the sun moves across the Martian sky.

The sundial design team included Jon Lomberg, an artist and creative consultant to the Mauna Kea Center for Astronomy Education, Hawaii; Tyler Nordgren, an artist and astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.; sundial expert Woodruff Sullivan, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington; Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society; Cornell University astronomers Steven Squyres and Jim Bell; and Bill Nye, the television writer and host of the public television children's science program, "Bill Nye The Science Guy."

Finally, we have an entire week’s listing of upcoming songs that will be radioed to each rover!

:-)

LOL!

You forgot Richard Hoaxland, maybe water was found when they dug at a 19.5 degree angle, provided they did it on a masonic holiday.

Finally, we have an entire week’s listing of upcoming songs that will be radioed to each rover!

YO! DuDe!!

Ewe rock!!

. . . but watCh out fur guys witH dart gUns . . .