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good afternoon I'm Byron Jones and this

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is the mission manager update for the

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mars exploration rover project over the

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last month both vehicles have

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experienced the worst dust storm since

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landing on the surface over thirteen

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hundred dollars ago over the last forty

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Sol's neither vehicle has had much

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activity due to the dust owns the Low

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Energy has challenged the engineering

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team to come up with techniques to

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balance battery load with dropping

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temperatures at one point opportunity

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saw record low of about 120 watt hours

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on the solar arrays at this time martian

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skies are clearing overdue seven

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meridian and craters and both vehicles

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are resuming regular science operation

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images taken from mars color imager on

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board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

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indicate that there is no dust storms

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nearby either vehicle but the

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atmospheric opacity levels are still

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high right now it has salt 1307 for

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spirit last week Spirit emerged from

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Silicon Valley and is now resting on top

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home plate over 550 Sol's ago beard

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explored the northern tip of home plate

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and this time we'll be investigating the

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southern region an opportunity it's all

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1286 opportunity weathered out the Duff

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storm sitting about 20 meters from duck

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Bay last week we drove to within one

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meter of victorias rim to image duck Bay

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and potential ingress location after

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close analysis the team has concluded

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that the best place that inter duck Bay

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is actually within metres of the first

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location we reached there and saw 951

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well that's it for today I'm Byron Jones