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Columbia Hills

Columbia Hills
Columbia Hills After completing her primary mission and with the mission’s first extension, Spirit headed across Gusev to the Columbia Hills, a collection of seven hills, each of which the MER team named to memorialize the seven astronauts who died on Columbia’s final, tragic flight in 2003. The rover would hike to the two summits of Husband Hill in 2005. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell