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hugh3 on May 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover

Roughly on opposite sides of the planet. If you've got a rover that can drive halfway around Mars, there's a lot more interesting things to look at than that, I'm sure.

InclinedPlane on May 25, 2011 [–]

If Opportunity traveled as fast as it possibly could it would take a century to reach Spirit, though the chances of it lasting that long are low.

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