Rescue Plans Under Way For Stuck Spirit Mars Rover
NASA’s rover project team is preparing to use the same simulated Martian soil material employed by the Phoenix Lander team in 2008 to help develop an escape maneuver for the Spirit rover, which has become bogged down in the planet’s soft surface. “Spirit is obviously in a serious state because she’s...
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