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Spirit probe rolls onto martian surface source: Reuters UK | Jan 15, 04 | submitted by Ryan

Pasadena, California - Twelve days after its bouncy arrival on the Red Planet, the robotic rover Spirit has rolled off its landing platform for its first spin on martian soil, steered by Earth-bound NASA engineers sitting 115 million miles away.

The 78-second outing took Spirit only about 10 feet (3 meters) straight ahead but was hailed by project managers at the Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a flawless prelude to the six-wheeled craft's historic quest for signs of life-sustaining water.

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