Mars Rover surpasses goals
The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has surpassed 1,000 sols - Martian days - on a mission in which the rover's lifetime was designed to be only 90 sols. Each Martian day is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. That means that in Earth days, Spirit has been on Mars more than 1,026 Earth days...
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