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Everready Glass Sales Reps Administrative & Professional Jorgensen Brooks Group Counselor Mechanical Komatsu Equipment Co Resident Field Mechanic Administrative & Professional Tucson Urban League CEO/President Finance and Accounting Charles E. Gillman Company Accounting Specialist Trades/Construction RANCHO RESORT MAINTANANCE POSITION NationQ&A on the NewsTucson, Arizona | Published: 07.21.2008
Question: We have seen a lot of publicity about the Phoenix Mars landing. What happened to the robots Spirit and Opportunity?
Answer: NASA's two mobile robotic rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, continue gathering data and sending photos from Mars, having survived damage and the extremes of Martian temperature.
They were launched from Cape Canaveral, on central Florida's Space Coast, in 2003 and landed in January 2004.
Three months later, the 384-pound rovers successfully completed their primary missions to explore the Martian surface and geology on opposite sides of the planet.
The rovers made important discoveries of water-bearing minerals, sedimentary rocks, exotic salts and opaline silica, evidence for the presence of abundant water in Mars' past.
These discoveries occurred within a few miles of where they landed and have shown scientists that Mars is more varied than anyone expected.
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