Is it Over Rover? Rover Daily Update Spirit Sol 91: "Spirit woke up on sol 91, which ended at 6:38 p.m. PDT on April 5, 2004, as if it were any other martian day, but this one was special. Finishing 90 sols of surface operations since landing day marked completion of the last of the official success criteria for Spirit's prime mission. The rover team at JPL had checked off the next-to-last box for mission success two days earlier, when a drive of 50.2 meters (165 feet) took Spirit's total travel distance over the 600-meter (1,969 feet) mark." This might hint at further cutbacks in rover coverage. From the once daily hour long press conference to daily 2 minute mission controller updates, which now seem to get regularly skipped, we are down to the still daily written summary: Rover Daily Updates I wonder how long it will last. NASA people seem to be in a big hurry to declare the mission over so they can go home. Unfortunate really, since in the beginning when the press was anxious to cover more territory they were told that there was no hurry. The 90 day number was just the MINIMUM life expectancy of the hardware. Now they are changing their tune. The hardware is fine. Seems it is the personnel that is worn out. Or maybe it has just exceeded the American publics attention span. Ever shorter.