From: MarkLFischer at aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:09:31 EST
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Wouldn't work as fiction
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

In a message dated 3/15/2005 5:37:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
MJW at press.jhu.edu writes:

>"Turns out that a Martian whirlwind -- dubbed a dust devil --  likely
>zoomed over the robot high up in the Columbia Hills. That fleeting  flyby
>effectively cleaned Spirit's solar arrays, giving the robot a new  lease
>on life.

What the government's not letting them tell you is that Spirit's oil was
changed and tires rotated at the same time.