When we take time out from murdering each other. Sadly that little robot only lasted a few months and yet at 26 years old, almost two decades later, I watched the news (on my incredibly advanced smart phone) as “we” landed a rover the size of a car on the surface of a planet hundreds of millions of kilometres away. I remember as a kid of ten in 1997, obsessed with all things space and hearing about the probe “we” had landed on Mars, the Mars Pathfinder mission, and the little robot ‘ Sojourner’, thinking this is the greatest thing we had ever done. You don’t really get a sense of it until you sit back and look at where we once were and where we are now. Technology has progressed at warp speed over the last few decades.
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