Re: Fingers crossed for Opportunity
" remember pointing out Mars to my kids when they were quite small"
Last week I found a Mars-rover-like model at a petrol station and got it for my daughter*. She was indeed suitably impressed to be told that a couple of them were trundling about on Mars. Even more so was my wife who doesn't habitually keep up with what's happening in sci-tech world.
*absolutely not for myself, not at all, no sireeee!!