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Mars rover becomes a couch potato
Spirit, the NASA rover that has trundled across the Mars landscape since 2004, will no longer rove. If it survives a hibernation through the fierce cold of the oncoming winter, it will continue operations as a science station, NASA announced in a telecon on Tuesday. Spirit has been trapped in a bed of sand since last May, and engineers have been unable to free it.
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