It feels good to get moving on this story line. Like I may have said before, I thought of this soon after the actual event of Opportunity sending its last message. It was one of those things that I didn't expect to have an impact on me emotionally, but it did. I feel bad for this trooper of a rover, doing what we sent it out to do, giving us so much useful information... and now it's just up there, alone.

But we know that won't be the case for long...