21-October-2005, 05:21 PM
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NASA's Spirit Rover Descends From Martian Hilltop
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After nearly one year of rolling and scrambling up Husband Hill, NASA’s Mars rover Spirit is headed back down towards new and rocky pastures.
The rover is making its way down Husband’s slopes toward a basin to the south, where a science target known as “Home Plate” awaits.
“It is a big step,” said Steve Squyres, principal investigator of the rover’s science mission at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. “We’ve really switched gears.”
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