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'Drive' animation from Spirit sol 2078

'Drive' animation from Spirit sol 2078
'Drive' animation from Spirit sol 2078 Spirit returns thumbnail images from the navigation camera to Earth to document drives. This animation documents Spirit's first drive sequence in 145 sols, on sol 2078, as her engineers prepared to attempt to extricate her from her sandy pit at Troy. NASA / JPL-Caltech / animation by Eduardo Tesheiner