Wow, a single photograph showing two of my favourite fantasies: a nice little excavator and a Martian robot. This is Phoenix, obviously. You can learn more about it on APOD. By the way, last week’s Soleil reported a touch of Quebec on Mars or, more precisely, in the robot – I quote: “René Fradet,CEO of the California company, Alliance Spacesystems Inc. (ASI), who developed the Phoenix robot arm, attended Cégep de Limoilou.”