For Mars Rover, Roadside Assistance

Wall Street Journal by Robert Lee Hotz | Jul. 20, 2009 (Special Report)
Past Warranty, It Survived Solar Flares and a Three-Story Bounce, but the Off-Road Buggy Is Belly-Deep in a Ditch

On Mars, NASA's robot rover Spirit is spinning its wheels on the soft shoulder of planetary exploration, up to its axles in silt millions of miles away from tense engineers who are struggling to extricate it by remote control. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Jul 20, 2009 - 6:41 AM PDT
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