Spirit rover glitch explained.

[blobrana]

Hum, but simpler also means cheaper...
I think that NASAs agenda was towards having many low-cost missions, rather than a few high budget ones.

The use of `off the peg` and recycled parts must be a better solution to a cash strapped nasa.
But i suppose that this particular mission is very public and news worthy so i imaging that they did provide a lot of `redundant` features to the design...

Either way they have brought us marvellous discoveries...

[blobrana]

Mars has been particularly unlucky for the russian space program, and unlike the success's of the venerahttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/venera.html spacecraft which landed on a more hostile planet...

And how they have tried...
http://www.geocities.com/goarana667/Marslist.htm

[blobrana]

But did you notice how errors crept into his typing...?

if he had used fewer words then the chance would be lowered, (but the meaning is quite clear with the errors, due to the bulk context) :-)