# Still hoping to hear from you soon ( Spirit rover)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 31, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-hoping-to-hear-from-you-soon-spirit-rover/548644 "2010-07-31T01:17:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-hoping-to-hear-from-you-soon-spirit-rover/548644/1 "2010-07-31T01:17:17Z")

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\*\*["NASA mission controllers](http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/30jul_spirit2/)\*\*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

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**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-hoping-to-hear-from-you-soon-spirit-rover/548644/2 "2010-07-31T01:53:31Z")

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

[http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png)

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-hoping-to-hear-from-you-soon-spirit-rover/548644/3 "2010-07-31T03:14:11Z")

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> [@pudytat72](#):
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> Here is a cartoon showing this from Spirit’s perspective. (Spirit wanting to come home)
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> [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png](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. 😃