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I'm JPL a Mars rover driver Scott

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Maxwell and this is a Mars rover update

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the MER operations team heed the

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collective sigh of relief as we heard

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from spirit right on schedule this week

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despite a dangerous Martian dust storm

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that darkened the skies over her

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location this dramatic series of images

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taken by spirit over at Enfield period

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shows the sun being nearly blotted out

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by the storm then slowly reemerging the

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storm reduced the energy generated by

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spirit stoller panels to an all-time low

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of only 89 watt hours that's about what

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it takes to run an ordinary kitchen

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light bulb for only an hour and a half

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as a result this team instructed to take

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emergency measures not to burn costly

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energy communicating with earth but

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instead to take every available step to

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reduce energy and ride out the storm

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strategy worked great beards in much

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better shape now her energy level has

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doubled from a dull time low although

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it's still very well so she's still in

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intensive care but she's out of critical

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condition we hope that her energy level

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will continue to improve over the next

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few days as storm continues to abate and

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we'll hear from her again soon meanwhile

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on the other side of Mars spirits twin

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sister opportunity is far away from the

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storm rolling along happily under sunny

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Martian skies and making excellent

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progress towards our next goal endeavour