Emily Lakdawalla • Jan 07, 2009
Spirit moved!
Hallelujah! For the first time in almost an Earth year, amateur mars mapper Eduardo Tesheiner is able to scratch a tiny little line on his map of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's peregrinations across Gusev Crater. Here's the updated map, the first new one since sol 1466:
![Spirit route map to Sol 1782](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x1200_crop_center-center_82_line/20140102_Route_Map_Sol1782r.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x768_crop_center-center_60_line/20140102_Route_Map_Sol1782r.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_60_line/20140102_Route_Map_Sol1782r.jpg 576w)
What? You can't see anything different from previous maps? Here's a zoom:
![Detail from Spirit sol 1782 route map](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_294x267_crop_center-center_line/20140102_Route_Map_Sol1782r_detail.jpg 294w)
Spirit has slid downhill, and can no longer see up onto the top of Home Plate. And look, Spirit is about to cross its own tracks, made more than a thousand sols (that's nearly three Earth years!) ago. Over at Mars and Me, it's Spirit's sol 4, and Scott is actually in on a phone conversation with the President. Remarkable. Go read it. It's a fine example of where a little chutzpah can take you: "...So I did the sort of thing I never do: when everyone else filed out of the room, I casually got up and trailed along after them, as if I belonged...
The Time is Now.
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