One Earth year

Spirit touched down a year ago today. Opportunity not long after. 66,000 pictures later, they're still going strong, both way past their projected 90-day lifespan.

Now that's some serious engineering there. Spirit has one wheel that's a little dodgy, and I guess now it has a rock in its shoe, so to speak. (There's a rock wedged in one of the treads, what ya gonna do?)

In another part of the solar system Huygens is on its way to touchdown on Titan.

Didn't Shrub announce a manned Mars mission a while back? Are we on Mars yet? Or is it another thing he announced and never funded, like Afghanistan or No Child Left Unscarred or whatever? It's been almost a year, the shuttles are still grounded, Hubble is going to burn up in the atmosphere, but hey... um... at least the GOP has its priorities in order. As seen on Atrios:

So, the House Republicans support a rule change which will let them:

*Take bribes!

*Fix parking tickets!

*Have sex with House pages!