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Spirit Rolls
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“January 15, 2004: NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully drove off its lander platform and onto the soil of Mars early today. The robot’s first picture looking back at the now-empty lander and showing wheel tracks in the soil set off cheers from the robot’s flight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
In the control room, engineers played Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out” as they watched new images confirming that Spirit had successfully exited its lander platform.
‘Spirit is now ready to start its mission of exploration and discovery. We have six wheels in the dirt,’ said JPL Director Charles Elachi later.”