Mars tribute to 9/11 victims
Debris from the terror attacks on the World Trade Centre is sitting on the surface of Mars. Engineers used mangled metal from the wreckage of the 9/11 outrage to build parts for two robot rovers now exploring the Red Planet.
The quiet tribute was the idea of staff at Honeybee Robotics, a company operating close to the New York disaster scene who built drilling tools for Nasa. Many of the Manhatten workers had to flee choking clouds of smoke and dust after the twin towers were destroyed by two airliners in September 2001...
A little more continued at link.
If you go to the Honeybee homepage, you can see what appears to be one of the rovers, front and center, proudly displaying its 9/11 tribute.
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11:47 PM EST
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