We went snowmobiling for the first time yesterday. Ace fun. I fell off / turned over a couple of times but once I got the hang of it, it was great. In the end, I figured out that just stuffing the throttle full-open and sliding side-to-side on the saddle was the best way to drive the things in corners.

Spirit (MER-A) has been placed in 'cripple' mode. Turns out the flash memory is causing problems so the ground crew managed to tell it to ignore that memory and shut down. It had been rebooting and rebooting trying to get running again, and 130 reboots later, all the battery life was dead. It's now recovering quietly, solar panels out, recharging in cripple mode.

Meanwhille, Opportunity (MER-B) slammed down last night and rolled to a stop upside down. By the time we got up this morning, they'd righted it, deflated the airbags and opened up the lander. I'll be damned if that rover doesn't seem to be working perfectly too. They got the first slew of pictures back from it last night via Mars Global Surveyor.

And finally, the inversion has been washed away here in SLC, and replaced with low cloud and 3 inches of fresh snow. So I got to use the beast again this morning on the driveway and paths. Sweet!

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