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Mars Spirit Rover Research Paper

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The Mars Spirit Rover is a spacecraft that has gone to space once with his twin, Opportunity. Spirit and Opportunity launched on June 10, 2003 at 13:58:47 EDT on a 283 mile search for water on Mars and landed successfully on January 3rd of 2004. Opportunity touched down at another locale 3 weeks later, then, joining Spirit on a 90 day quest to look for clues about water on the Red Planet. The two robots, together, made up the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Another is the huge Mars Rover, Curiosity, that was launched November 26 of 2011 and arrived on the planet last August 6th at 1-1:30 am. Both robots, Spirit and Opportunity found such clues that helped the scientist confirm that Mars indeed did have water billions of years ago and was

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