News: Mars Rovers Still Going Strong Over 2 Years After they Landed

From MSNBC.COM:
Mars rovers are in good shape for winter
Spirit settles down in refuge; Opportunity rolls toward huge crater
By Leonard David
Those long-lived NASA Mars rovers — Spirit and Opportunity — remain in fairly good shape, with one robot in survival mode as Martian winter arrives while its twin snakes its way across a taxing terrain of sand dunes to reach a striking target.
“Both rovers are doing really well right now,” said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover project. “We had a bit of a scare with Spirit a while back, losing use of the right front wheel less than a hundred meters shy of our intended wintering spot on McCool Hill,” he told Space.com.
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