I can't pass up Talk Like a Pirate Day just because I'm on M-AAAAARs! Now it's back back to work digging for treasure. Arrr!

TEGA analyzes samples for water ice, plus their minerals, salts, organics. This chart is helpful: tinyurl.com/6qwsx8

Heigh ho, heigh ho! Delivered soil from the Snow White trench to the wet chem lab. Now it's time to dig dig dig and fill those TEGA cells.

Breezy days and nights make for some interesting videos. Night time: tinyurl.com/425nal Day Time: tinyurl.com/4kbs5t

What the heck was that? Whoaa, dust devils at my landing site! Now that's entertainment (and cool science) tinyurl.com/6l5peh

The Mars calendar here is good: tinyurl.com/6hl2pq And you can download Mars solar clock here: tinyurl.com/55rc6n

Waning sunlight/loss of solar power will happen before ice cap reaches here. Perhaps the orbiters will watch ice cap grow.

Flipping over a rock is a dream of mine. I hope to do it after I'm done with all the sample collection and delivery. Busy arm.

My designers knew that Martian fall & lack of sunlight would end the mission before dust on the panels did. So no need for wipers.

Q's about the seasons: They're longer on Mars (nearly double Earth's). December marks start of fall. "Next spring" arrives in October '09.