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To: NormsRevenge

Could this be the end for our amazing rovers?


3 posted on 06/27/2007 3:58:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: cripplecreek
No, the rovers are doing pretty good, still snooping around. opportunity has a bum wheel but spirit is ok.

The dust devils help clean the dust and sand and such off the solar panels , as long as they can communicate and move around, they'll go 'til they run out of battery life..

NASA's Mars rover Spirit catches a bevy of dust devils race across Gusev Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell.

6 posted on 06/27/2007 4:02:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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