Spirit

MARS ROVER · the fighter

LANDED 2004PLANNED 90 daysLASTED over 6 years

Built for a 90 day mission, Spirit drove and climbed through Gusev crater for more than six years. Its broken wheel turned into a stroke of luck: dragging through the soil, it scraped open bright silica deposits, evidence of ancient hot springs. Spirit finally got stuck in soft sand and froze in the Martian winter, a fighter to the end.

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