Looks like the rovers made it!

I've been on the road and haven't blogged in awhile. In the past few weeks though the Mars dust storm has been subsiding there is still a lot of dust in the atmosphere so the atmospheric opacity is still high and Spirit and Opportunity aren't getting as much solar energy as would be optimal, but it looks like they are "out of the woods" (so to speak). Also, some recent good news is that Opportunity has had "dust cleaning event" some big wind blew some of the dust off of the solar panels so it is getting more power even with the high "tau" (atmospheric opacity). Woo hoo! Hopefully that rover will be able to begin its exploration of the inner rim of Victoria Crater before too long.