From xkcd (obviously)

[img src="[$IMGBASE]spirit.png" alt="On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown."/]

T_T

Random trivia: today is January 2^nd, 2010. Or, in the One True Date Formatting, 20100102 : a symmetrical date. The next one won't be November next year.