Online Astronomy eText: The Planets
On the Surface of Mars: The Spirit Rover

     This page will review significant parts of the Spirit rover mission. For now, it consists of two images -- immediately below, a panoramic view of its landing site (January 4, 2004) (Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA, apod040105) -- and below that, an image taken six years later, at the rover's final resting place, where it will overwinter in mid 2010, and hopefully resume a fixed but useful post-roving mission in the Martian spring. (Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA, apod100307)