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New Scientist says that the Second Mars rover, Opportunity, has landed successfully on geologist's dream location on Mars. Nasa is two for two with the previous rover Spirit landing successfully! Although, there is less fanfair, Opportunity is already pleasing the masses by sending back great photos of Mars' surface. Unfortunately, the Spirit rover has already stopped communicating. Hopefully, Opportunity will last longer. ESA's Beagle never did respond, and Japan's Nazomi was directed away from Mars. Perhaps in the future, according to Bush's plan we may someday have humans on Mars.
There's lots of news about Opportunity landing on Mars!
First of all, I highly recommend this web page for regularly-updated information about the Mars landers:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/status.html
Second, Spririt is apparently not as bad off as was feared when the 'stopped communicating' article was written. Recent reports say they're hoping to have Spirit back to full operation in about three weeks, so it might just be a temporary setback.
Actually, make that three things. That's the view from Opportunity at the moment.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040126spirit.html
Thanks for the link NateW. I've been searching for something like that for a while now.-ro
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