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Mars Rover Faces an Uncertain Future

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 3) - Spirit has always been the unluckier of NASA's twin Mars rovers. Just weeks after landing in a Martian crater in 2004, it went haywire and transmitted gibberish to Earth. Engineers eventually nursed it back to health. As if the near-death experience wasn't enough, Spirit was upstaged early on by...

If Red Planet Turned Green, We Might Miss It

(Dec. 3) - If a little green man on Mars waved at us, would NASA notice? Probably not, at least not at the moment. Three of the four U.S. spacecraft monitoring the Red Planet are on the fritz -- one of them perhaps never to recover. The wheeled robot Spirit, which has motored around Mars since 2004, is stuck in a sand...