sometimes, i think the rover teams "leak" this stuff to create a bit of a "buzz" to get the minority of people that actually follow these things to fire off enough emails to NASA and their representatives in government stating what a stupid move it would be to kill the rovers to make them seem like a bigger group than they really are.. and it also gets them mentioned on the 24 hour news networks at 3am when almost no one is watching, which is free publicity.
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