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The place had been you when NASA’s Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian mud?
For almost 70 years, NASA — usually with assist from worldwide buddies — has been charting human historical past within the cosmos. Touchdown males on the Moon! Sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter! Launching the science-accelerating Hubble Area Telescope, and then vaulting the extraordinary James Webb Area Telescope into the heavens to alter the sport as soon as once more!
There’s one specific NASA second, although, that some (us) would hate to see misplaced to the annals of historical past: that point 20 years in the past when the Spirit rover (could it relaxation in peace) carved an undeniably phallic form into Mars’ floor.
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Spirit’s Legacy
As a 2013 report from NBC notes, Spirit drew its iconic Martian phallus again in 2004, shortly after touchdown on the dusty Crimson Planet alongside sister rover Alternative. And fascinatingly, Spirit is not the one rover to carve a phallic determine on our neighboring planet’s floor; the tracks are literally the results of a typical rover turning maneuver, and each Alternative and the next-generation Curiosity rover, which landed in 2012, had been recognized to make comparable markings with their wheels.
That is proper, everybody — Mars hasn’t simply been residence to 1 occasion of penile graffiti, however a number of. Unimaginable stuff.
After all, the legacy of Spirit, its sister craft, and the rovers which have adopted are far better than one 20-year-old picture. These crafts have captured an unbelievable quantity of information that is helped mankind higher perceive Earth’s fascinating cosmic neighbor, a feat which will support future crewed Mars missions.
And in addition, they draw dicks. What extra might we ask for?
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