NASA Rover Lands Safely on Red Planet

Posted January 4, 2004, 4:22 p.m.

CNN.com reports that NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, has landed successfully on Mars and is transmitting images.

NASA rover lands safely on red planet.

Spirit’s sister probe is expected to land on the red planet later this month, we’ll see how it fares. Most probes sent to land on Mars are mysteriously never heard from again after their attempts to land.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Nikola Tesla

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit, and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

John Adams

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Martin Luther

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Fred Brooks

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