2010-10-29 17:43:29.516774+02 by petronius 0 comments
Spirit, the plucky little Mars rover has been stuck in the red sand for nearly a year, two of it's tires inoperable, so barring a marsquake it is not moving. So NASA has programmed it for longer-term studies within arm's reach. And what did it find? Water! This is very big news.
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