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Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the robots-on-another-planet dept.

ivan1011001 writes "Spirit traveled just over 88 feet in an attempt to visit the crater "Bonneville" to look for evidence of water on Mars. Engineers had hoped the rover would travel 164 feet, but Spirit didn't cover the full distance because it spent more time than initially planned studying rocks and soil along the way. This is longer than its earlier PR of 70 feet."

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  1. Feed Me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. yes but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what on earth (no pun intended) has it actually accomplished? pictures of rocks? wow, they earnt their tax payer's money.

    seriously, don't mean to troll but who cares? if Beagle has got there it could carry out experiments in real-time and send results back to earth after analysis, beagle would have been great, and an actual asset to this whole Mars project, but it just seems that every few years they send the same pieces of metal up there that do nothing.

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  4. Re:oh wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    im about to pee my pants!

    Can I taste?