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I'm Ashley Stroupe one of the Mars rover

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drivers for spirit and I'm here with the

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latest free spirit update we've started

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doing a very interesting set of tests

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we've brought in a new Rover this Rover

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is lighter weight than the regular

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Rovers and that actually models how much

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the real Rovers way on Mars because Mars

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has only thirty-eight percent the

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gravity that we have here on earth we're

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testing it on several different kinds of

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soil so that we can build a model of how

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the rover interacts with different kinds

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of soil and that will help us predict

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what the rover's going to do on the Mars

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soil when we start extraction after

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these tests we're going to be doing some

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extraction testing where we'll be doing

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long sequences of maneuvers that

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hopefully will help get spirit out on

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Mars once we see which of those

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sequences of moves works the best will

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then be able to implement those on Mars

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Spirit is experiencing a small dust

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storm and there's been a slight drop in

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power we were hoping that's going to

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blow over soon and that she'll be back

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to her normal power levels on the other

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side of the planet opportunity is still

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investigating this fascinating meteorite

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that we found we just told us many

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interesting things including given us

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some insight into how dense the

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atmosphere of Mars must have been a long