Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Winter's over on Mars

With the Sun stronger on Mars, the immobile, long-lived rover Opportunity is getting ready to move again, and explore more of  Endeavour Crater, the crater that it finally made it to last Martian summer and fall, before it got cold.  Now, what it really needs is one good spring dust-devil to polish all the dust off the solar panels.   That'd be nice.

Opportunity gears up

"Therefore, Opportunity will soon be backing down off her winter perch and resume driving on the near-level terrain around the north end of Cape York."

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