Still hoping to hear from you soon ( Spirit rover)

[CWN]

**"NASA mission controllers**have not heard from Mars rover Spirit since March 22 as the rover faces its toughest challenge yet - trying to survive the harsh Martian winter.
Spirit Phone Home (stuck, 200px)
Last year, Spirit became stuck in loose sand. This prevented the rover from driving to a sun-facing slope for the winter.
On July 26, mission managers began using a paging technique called “sweep and beep” in an effort to communicate with Spirit."

It has been a wonderful mission up till now, 6 years of faithful service and I know it would come to an end soon but I found this rather sad

[pudytat72]

Here is a cartoon showing this from Spirit’s perspective. (Spirit wanting to come home)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png

[Ferret_Herder]

@pudytat72

Here is a cartoon showing this from Spirit’s perspective. (Spirit wanting to come home)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png

Someone did an awesome response to this, but I’m failing at finding it atm - took the art and changed the words so that Spirit was fired up about his mission being extended and about becoming the first Earthling to colonize Mars, IIRC. I prefer that one.