Mars Rovers: Saved by the Blogosphere?

By Si Dunn

Somebody at NASA must have peered beyond the universe of their corner office today and realized the blogosphere was going berserk over March 24's leaked news that the Mars Rover program and the Mars Odyssey program both faced budget-cut shutdowns in 2008 and 2009.

The Associated Press reported late this morning (March 25) that "NASA says it has absolutely no plan to turn off either of the Mars Rovers because of budget cuts."

However, nothing apparently has been said yet about the fate of the Mars Odyssey orbiter, which has made many significant findings and photographs over the past seven years.

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