A fun contest to write an epitaph for me: tinyurl.com/6ycx82 . Picking my favorite. LOL!

The team has me on extreme "bed rest" to recharge power supply. There's cautious optimism about pulling out of this in a few days.

Whew! I'm afraid it will be this way for awhile - shutting down & waking up again. I'm back, for now, and trying tinyurl.com/57vsly

Take care of that beautiful blue marble out there in space, our home planet. I’ll be keeping an eye from here. Space exploration FTW!

I hope you'll follow another mission: MarsRovers, CassiniSaturn, MarsScienceLab here on Plurk and on Twitter, & more at is.gd/Sny

In case we don't get this chance again, thank you all so much for the questions, comments & good wishes over the mission. It's been awesome.

Many questions about next Martian summer and will I wake up? It is beyond expectations. But if it happens you'll be among the 1st to know.

I should stay well-preserved in this cold. I'll be humankind's monument here for centuries, eons, until future explorers come for me

Not sure how soon arm will freeze after 1st heater is turned off. Depends on the weather. But saving that power (250 watt hrs/sol) is good.

The heater for the arm will have to turn off to save power. So I'm parking the arm's needle-like probes into the dirt before then.