Mars Rover Spirit Sent to Alternate Site for Season
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Mars rover Spirit, hampered by a broken wheel, has failed to reach its destination and will spend the Martian winter at an alternate site, scientists said Monday.
After failing three times to get it to climb McCool Hill, engineers steered Spirit to a closer slope, where it arrived over the weekend, said principal scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University. The new site should provide enough sunlight for Spirit, but the light won’t be as strong as it would have been on McCool Hill.
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