Mars Rovers

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Still operating after 22 months - despite a 3 month service rating. Unreal.

Spirit, the robot on wheels that reached the top of a Martian hill this summer after an epic climb, is heading back down toward its next target for exploration.

After two months at the summit of Husband Hill, the six-wheeled rover is descending to a basin where the scientific instruments it carries will examine an outcrop dubbed "home plate" because from orbit it looks like home on a baseball field.

Spirit's yearlong climb to the peak was a major feat for the Mars rover, which along with its twin, Opportunity, landed on opposite sides of the Red Planet in January 2004.
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Amazing, something that lasted longer than they expected. Never thought I'd see the day. ;)

This Mars thing is just too cool. I so wish it found something alien-like. But if it did, I'm sure we'd know nothing about it for years and years, if ever.
 
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