The Spirit Mars rover is now examining the geology of the “Home Plate” area in the Victoria Crater. The rover is currently scouring the area in search of a suitable place to spend the winter, safe from high winds and dust storms. In the past few days, the rover has been exploring this area and collecting data with its thermal emission spectrometer, taking panoramic photos, and measuring atmospheric dust levels. The article then goes on to describe the day by day activities of Spirit in the Crater in great detail. Data analysis has not yet taken place in this article, so the findings are rudimentary, but interesting.
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