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August 25, 2009

Those plucky little rovers...

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Spirit has been stuck in a sandpit for nearly four months. Since late June, engineers have been trying to determine the best moves to extricate it by driving a test rover around a sandbox at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.

Those little rovers have done incredibly well. One of NASA's success stories. Unlike all this manned space flight stuff.

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