> Lesson for engineers: build lots and lots of debugging hooks and panic buttons into your systems. You'll need them. Exactly... Especially when your hardware

> Lesson for engineers: build lots and lots of debugging hooks and panic buttons into your systems. You'll need them. Exactly... Especially when your hardware is 30 million miles away :) > I also find it amazing that as of now, the Mars rovers have been working for over 2000 sols. Me too, although when I looked it up, I found out that Spirit has been stuck in a patch of soft ground since May... NASA engineers have been testing plans on earth to get it unstuck. Photos here: http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/ http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/ (start at 5/1). Hopefully they're as good at debugging mud as they are at software!