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When the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and flight 93 were attacked by terrorists in 2001, killing 2974 people from over 90 nations, engineers at a spaceflight robotics company a few blocks away from the Twin Towers decided to commemorate the loss of life – on Mars. Honeybee Robotics, a company building some of the instruments for the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity, obtained some metal wreckage that they fashioned into two cable shields and two spares (in case the launches failed) to protect wiring on each rover from rock impacts. With a US flag affixed to each, the shields are now in service on opposite sides of the Red Planet.

[Article continues at link. I think of this as a fitting FU to the Muslim world: hey, while you're busy trying to re-create the 14th Century, we're going to go ahead and explore other planets. You go have fun, okay? - Trevor Blake]