Mission Update

          This week in class, we read the "Mission Update", which was very interesting because it was a change from its usual writing format, to a more relaxed blog style, which catches our attention and more interesting. The Mission Update interested me because it was about the rover landing on Mars, with a astronaut watching the rover land and guiding it through the craters of Mars, with pure excitement in his writing. The writer of Mission Update is Steve Squyres, he wrote this in 2006, and it is live feedback from what he was witnessing in space, watching the rover land on Mars and exploring the planet. The tone would keep me interested because there was no persuasion or informing involved, it was just excitement about the beautiful images Steve Squyres was watching.
          Steve Squyres describes the imagery very beautifully and makes the reader more interested in it because it sounds very fascinating, and shows how all the things we were accomplishing in space in 2006, which can inspire future readers to go up to space and explore. Also this piece of literature was interesting to me because it was written in 2006, compared to much older works we have been reading so far. I was truly fascinated from reading this piece of work, and i went home and did my own research and saw pictures of the rover exploring Mars, i hope to read more works like this to keep the year interesting and also modernized.