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The long dark stuck8/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Spirit lost the use of one of its six wheels four years ago, and another wheel gave out during the rover’s recent struggles at Troy. NASA announced in a January 26 teleconference that Spirit, stuck for months in a patch of soft soil known as Troy, has been designated a “stationary research platform.”ĭoug McCuistion, director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, called the rover’s plight “a golfer’s worst nightmare-the sand trap that no matter how many strokes you take, you can’t get out of it.” ![]() The Mars rover Spirit, which in January passed its sixth anniversary of landing on the Red Planet, will apparently rove no more.
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