When high quality engineering and scientific curiosity come together fantastic things can happen...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22832673
The fact that the opportunity rover, (which is 9 years old and has spent most of its' 'life' working on the surface of Mars), has made a new and fascinating discovery is only heightend by the fact that this machine has outlived its expected duration by so long.
The Mars rovers have fulfilled their objectives, making exploration of the red planet possible, sating curiosity, raising new possibilities about the planet as it might have been. Everything the scientists can have hoped and dreamed for.
Yet perhaps the proudest people are/should be the engineers who built them. without the engineering skill the science wouldn't follow and it's a great collaboration.
Just to illustrate that point, here's another link showing what fantastic work the Rover has been doing on the red planet... http://www.space.com/18289-opportunity-rover.html
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