好幽默的火星人啊∼∼

ㄏㄏ 也許喔
如果是的話 他們為什麼這麼好心呢?

高度懷疑這是假新聞.....上次丟下一台探測車用沒多久就掛了,之後就沒有再進一步的
探測計畫,更何況是丟兩台探測車,這是多大的工程??

這新聞讓我想起幾年前HP印表機的****...
一群火星人拿著HP印表機印的荒涼風景排排站在探測車周圍,
讓探測車只能照到無人煙的荒涼景象,
照不到後面火星人的繁華都市...

這是真新聞，機會號和精神號火星探測器還在運作。不過報導的有些誇大外星人這點。

NASA JPL的新聞稿
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/news.../20041021a.html

...
The daily power supply for each rover comes from 1.3 square meters (14 square feet) of solar panels converting sunlight into electricity. Just after the landings in January, the output was about 900 watt-hours per day for each rover -- enough to run a 100-watt bulb for nine hours. As anticipated, output gradually declined due to dust buildup and the martian seasonal change with fewer hours of sunlight and a lower angle of the Sun in the sky. By July, Spirit's daily output had declined to about 400 watt-hours per day. It has been between 400 and 500 watt-hours per day for most of the past two months.

Opportunity, closer to Mars' equator and with the advantage of a sunward-facing tilt as it explored inside the southern half of a crater, maintained an output level between 500 and 600 watt-hours per day in June, July and August. Since early September, the amount of electricity from Opportunity's solar panels has increased markedly and unexpectedly, to more than 700 watt-hours per day, a level not seen since the first 10 weeks of the mission.

"We've been surprised but pleased to see this increase," said Erickson, "The team is evaluating ways to determine which of a few different theories is the best explanation."

Possible explanations under consideration include the action of wind removing some dust from the solar panels or the action of frost causing dust to clump. "We seem to have had several substantial cleanings of the solar panels," Erickson said.

比較該報導及英文原版, 應該是歪曲事實而不是誇大吧...

報導中並沒有說就是外星人把灰塵擦掉啊。怎能說是歪曲事實呢？
而且這篇報導並不一定是由這篇NASA的新聞稿來的。

來看看這支****:
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~b90203046/Mars.wmv