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Mars Probes
A number of resilient little probes called Spirit, Stardust, and Opportunity are in the news. Spirit just landed on Mars and is sending back excellent information, and Stardust recently took some of the most spectacular photos ever taken of a comet. ... Although it was designed to land on Mars with basically the same rig used for the last successful Mars probe, it weighs 50% more, and has an entire laboratory crammed into the same space. ...
A resilient little Mars probe called Stardust recently took some of the most spectacular photos ever taken of a comet. ... ”
For the first time since Americas twin Viking Landers touched down on the Red Planet in 1976, NASA has two working spacecraft on the surface of Mars. ... The rover Spirit was launched from Earth on June 10, 2003, and landed on Mars on January 4, 2004, at Gusev Crater, which may be an ancient lake. Its twin, Opportunity, was launched on July 8, 2003, and landed on Mars on January 25, 2004, at Meridiani Planum, which has minerals associated with water.
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