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hi

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i'm ashley stroup one of the rover

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drivers for spirit and opportunity

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i'm here in the surface mission support

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area where we do all of our analysis of

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the data that the rovers send back every

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day

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and i'm here to give you an update on

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our rovers

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now that spirit has completed her

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studies of home plate and silica valley

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and survived the long cold winter the

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scientists want her to travel on to two

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interesting

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science features in the south they're

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called bonbron hill

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and the depression goddard they're

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thought to be remnants of ancient

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volcanic activity

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the shortest distance to these features

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is due south across the top of home

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plate

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but that is requiring spirit to do the

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very difficult task of climbing up the

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30 degree hill that she's parked on

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we weren't sure that spirit would be

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able to make this difficult climb

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but in hopes of the rover would once

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again surprise us we made the first

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attempt

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on october 22nd saw 1709.

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spirit in fact defied the odds and

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climbed eight centimeters up that hill

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on her very first try

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meanwhile opportunity has completed an

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amazing two-year campaign at victoria

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crater

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kilometers to the southeast and that

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journey will take her more than

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one year to complete she has begun this

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journey in earnest

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and we had our last view of victoria

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crater about two weeks ago on sol 1683

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winds have helped to keep opportunity

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solar panels relatively clean

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that with the increase in power that

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we're getting from the sun

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is enabling her to make long drive each

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day

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we're averaging more than 60 meters and

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sometimes getting more than

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200 meters this greatly improves her

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chances of getting to endeavour

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now with victoria far out of sight

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opportunity is driving through some

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amazing edge terrain

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and is now surrounded by beautiful sand

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ripple

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so for the near future both spirit and

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opportunity are going to be

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concentrating

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on driving towards their next science

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goal of course we will stop here and

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there as we find

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interesting science targets along the