I did not intentionally break the law but made a foolish mistake for which I have accepted responsibility. I am pleased the whole incident is now behind me and I can focus my attention on doing my best for Blackburn Rovers.
Quotes about rovers (14 Quotes)
I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.
Both are super-complicated...taking very sophisticated lab experiments and compressing them down smaller to fit into a very tight space...as all rovers tend to be.
He'd been told that he'd play regularly for Bristol Rovers and I put it to him that he couldn't be guaranteed that here. Every one of our players in the squad is happy to fight for a place and I don't want players here who aren't up for the challenge.
I was in Studio 3 cutting a song with, I think, the Irish Rovers, ... I saw a record on the wall in the hall by Johnny Rivers. It had this song 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' And that made me curious. I wondered if it was about the city or the bird. So I listened to it, and I cried because it made me homesick. And if you can cry to Johnny Rivers, you know that's a good song. I recorded it the next day. And lo and behold it was one of the biggest records I ever had.
We had long discussions about this, because at the beginning I was a little bit reluctant, because I thought, 'Well, are people going to think that we've got a camera on Mars' and then, I thought, 'Well, people are far enough along. The audience is smart.' We want to show want show what the rovers are doing and we can't just have stills.
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
Both Rick and I are lifelong fans of Coronation Street so to be in the Rovers with the regulars is an ambition fulfilled.
They've done a fabulous job with both rovers and getting Spirit to the 'top of the hill' is an amazing accomplishment.
From an engineering standpoint, you really have to tip your hat. These rovers were designed for a lifetime of three months and now it's not clear when they're going to stop.
The extended journeys taken by the two rovers across the surface of Mars has allowed the science community to continue to uncover discoveries that will enable new investigations of the red planet far into the future.
For now, the rovers are in amazingly good shape, ... We're going to work them hard to get as much benefit from them as we can, for as long as they are capable of producing worthwhile science results.
Unfortunately, recovering from something like a reset is a slow, lengthy process. You don't know what caused the problem, and the immediate concern is that whatever triggered it will do it again next time you try it. The thing you have to do is fire up each of the rover's capabilities one at a time, checking each one carefully and individually to see whether it would cause another reset or not. Standard spacecraft troubleshooting practicebut it takes time.
Before launch it just seemed impossibly far away, it seemed unreachable. Tonight, I go out knowing our rovers have been there a whole Martian year...it's a much more familiar planet. We know the place.