2004

Facebook was founded and now is one of the most used social networking sites!!!

oh yeah....and NASA's MER-B landed on Mars.....and found that where the rover landed the area was drenched in water

//**Opportunity**//, mission designation **MER-B** (**Mars Exploration Rover - B**), is the second of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully at Meridiani Planum on Mars on January 25, 2004 05:05 Ground UTC (//circa// 13:15 local time), three weeks after its twin //Spirit// (MER-A) had landed on the other side of the planet. Its name was chosen through a NASA-sponsored student essay competition. The NASA rover has continued to function effectively over twenty times longer than its planned 90-sol mission, aided by solar cell cleaning events, which allowed it continue performing extensive geological analysis of Martian rocks and planetary surface features. Mission highlights include completion of the 90-sol mission, discovery of the first meteor on another planet, Heat Shield Rock (//Meridiani Planum//), and over 2 years studying Victoria crater. The rover narrowly survived dust-storms in 2007, and is now making its way to Endeavour crater. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington.

♪Kylee Smith♫