On January 3, 2004, the Mars rover named “Spirit” began its diligent exploration. It began sending back so many photographs that NASA figured out a way to teach the little rover how to detect changes in images, so that it sent only images back to Earth with new information.  For example, if Rover was taking photographs of dust devils, it would pause and waits until the image changed before taking the next photo.  That meant less work for the scientists sifting through the many, many amazing photographs 'Spirit' sent home.  What a great name for such a small machine.

A young girl by the name of Sofi was born in Siberia, a bitterly cold and desolate area of Russia. A difficult place to be a child but Sofi's life was going to be even rougher than most. She was an orphan. Then suddenly at the…