The orbiting satelitte that sends images from the rovers back to earth went down briefly Monday. The stoppage was due to a reboot caused by a software glitch. The Rovers are continuing their descent into Victoria Crater.

I've been crazy busy lately. Here's a few quick links of things that I want to keep track of.

A Robotic Fish video. From my nemesis nation, The United Kingdom.

Protein synthesis in the race to create for artificial life

Rustum Roy's Burning Salt water?

Robots becoming essential to farming.

The Mars Spirit Rover has been investigating the Gusev Crater on Mars. It recently found that the crater is 'unusually rich' in silica deposits. This concentration of silica is though to only form under the presence of water. Ergo, there must have been a great deal of surface water on Mars at some point. I think this contradicts a theory from earlier this year that Mars' water has always been under the surface - although I don't have the time to look it up this morning. I had to get a job last week, following the near collapse of my auto accessories business. You'll probably find some great deals on my stuff through Amazon, too (search by merchant name).

New software uploaded to mars. Really, I just think this is spiffy. The Mars Rovers had a software push to improve their ability to navigate terrain on their own.