Spirit and Opportunity

[Eric Vaxxine]

Have I missed something, or is there a definate lack of airtime about the martian rovers? So much photo-imagery is available, but Discovery and Nat Geo continue to repeat old material.
(TV here in the UK...it might be different for Americans.)

Has anyone seen a current Spirit or Opportunity documentary?

[Swift]

Nope, it is the same in the US. It is at least a year since I've seen any documentary on TV about them.

[Fortunate]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

[PhantomWolf]

They aren't interesting to the media anymore. Media shelf life is about 1-3 months max. Unless they discover something of an outstanding nature the pop media will continue to ignore them from now until they add a footnote to history saying that they died.

[Tobin Dax]

On this note, though, Steve Squires will be giving a public lecture on the University of Illinois (@ Urbana-Campus) in March. So there may be some around here then.

(I get to go to lunch with Steve Squires! :D Sorry, but I'm still thrilled at that prospect.)

[jrkeller]

I think Cassini and Deep Impact have stole the spotlight

[novaderrik]

in july all the space news was about the triumphant return to flight of the shuttle, and then the "near disaster' of the foam coming off.
other than a few Hubble pics here and there, i don't think i've sen ANY space news lately.