Spirit Arrives at Stratigraphic Wonderland!

The rover Spirit has just completed an extensive trek to an area scientists deem a ‘stratigraphic wonderland,’ a rocky area named “Texas Chili.” Rocks in the area will be analyzed with sophisticated instruments aboard the rover. The article then goes on to discuss the accomplishments of the rover prior to its current undertaking. A great deal of imagine and thermal emission spectrophotometry was accomplished by Spirit. The rover was also aiming to capture footage of dust devils with its navigation camera. Rock clasts and cloud formations were surveyed with panoramic cameras. Recently, Spirit scraped the surface of the Texas Chili area with a rock abrasion tool to acquire microscopic imaging. Spirit will continue to gather data about the area as well as take additional photos.