Spirit and Oppy
152,729 followers
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov
Roaming the Red Planet on six wheels since Jan 2004. The official mission Twitter of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
Listorious Interview
We figured a few people might be curious about what we do up here on Mars day in & day out. We're thrilled 20K + are following us now.
#FreeSpirit . Our followers liked it so much they created t-shirts. Our next one could be #SpiritisAlive, or perhaps #6YearsNOrecalls
Not sure, but I wish they'd rethink the new retweet format.
Oh, there are so many good ones! We like @Astro_Mike for taking the challenge to be the first working astronaut to tweet from space.
Look, we already shortened Opportunity's name to "Oppy", but we refuse to shorten Spirit's name to a four-letter word.
Now you're going to get us in an argument over which rover has better tweets! Let's just say all of them are good.
Usually only a day or two. But during solar conjunction (when sun is between Mars & Earth) comm w/ Earth is interrupted for days.
Gosh, we like Tweetie and Seesmic. Twitterfall and TweetGrid are great during major events to see how the community comes together
Nope, never had to unfollow anyone!
Don't tell us something, ENGAGE us in something.
Not so far, knock on wood. Or in our case, knock on rocks.
Anyone who thinks they don't care about space exploration. Let us change your mind.
As long as everyone plays nice and learns something new, we're happy.
Are you implying there is something other than a professional life?? Our programmers hadn't mentioned that.
We just got a tweet from Voyager 2 supporting us in the Shorty Awards. That was cool! Voyager 2 is out at the edge of our solar system.
The Martian Weather Channel. It would be great to know ahead of time when a dust storm is headed our way..
Finding evidence of water on Mars. Climbing a Martian mountain. Toe-dipping into a crater. And finding cool meteorites & drilling into them.
Simple. We talk about being on Mars.
Yes! Hearing from kids who follow us & are now excited about science gets us a little misty-eyed. It also encourages us to work harder.
Our six wheels. A few of them don't turn anymore (worn out from a lot of use) but we discovered that dragging a wheel helped us do science.
