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Spirit Hits the Sweet Spot
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“NASA’s Mars rover Spirit landed yesterday just where scientists hoped it would go: inside Gusev Crater, in a vast flatland perfect for roving. And, as a bonus, Mars dust is not a problem.
‘My hat is off to the navigation team because they did a fantastic job of getting us right where we wanted to be,’ says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, principal investigator for the science payload. ‘We hit the sweet spot. We wanted someplace where the wind had cleared [the dust] off the rocks for us–and this is it.’ “