Today marks the 4000th day of the Mars Opportunity Rover's 90-day mission

[Recursion]

And it's still mobile, and still sending back data.



People who say we still can't do awesome shit can just move on.

NASA/JPL/etc.? You guys rock.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. My husband worked on that...

He would be so amazed.

[Codeine]

2. Both of my uncles worked on it as well.

Sometimes humanity rocks.

[Recursion]

3. The person-hours that went into it are comparable to the great pyramids of Giza

We need more ideas like this.

[Baclava]

4. Way to go liitle robot!

selfie shows a clean machine

[phantom power]

5. Fuck yeah

[JaneyVee]

6. Wow. Seems like just yesterday.

[Glassunion]

7. I'm surprised the republicans haven't blamed Obama for this yet.

"We only paid for a 90 day mission!!!"