The New Yorker features John Updike's poem 'Duet on Mars' about the two NASA mars rovers (via megnut):
Said Spirit to Opportunity,
“I’m feeling rather frail,
With too much in my memory,
Plus barrels of e-mail.”Responded Opportunity,
“My bounce was not so bad,
But now they send me out to see
These dreary rocks, bedad!”...
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