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Mars: Happy Birthday "Spirit"
Pasadena, Usa - The scientists of Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated the event
Yesterday "Spirit" celebrated its first Birthday. Exactly on January 4, 2004, the sound probe landed on Mars, three weeks early the arrive of the second explorer "Opportunity". The existence of "Spirit", according to predictions, was limited: about three months, while the space probe still carries on furnishing information about the Red Planet, among which the discovery of goethite (or santosiderite)...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency