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Spirit Returns

Spirit Returns
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit moved its robotic arm during the rover's 1,277th Martian day (Aug. 6) for the first time in 20 days. Teams operating Spirit and Opportunity kept activity levels very low through July and early August of 2007 as dust storms have obscured much of the sunshine that the rovers rely on for their solar arrays.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit moved its robotic arm during the rover’s 1,277th Martian day (Aug. 6) for the first time in 20 days.
The teams operating Spirit and Opportunity kept both rovers’ activity levels very low through July and early August of 2007 because dust storms have obscured much of the sunshine that the rovers rely upon for their solar arrays. However, the sky had cleared enough above Spirit by Martian day (or sol) 1,276 for the team to resume moving the arm. One of the tools at the end of the arm is the microscopic imager.
This image, taken by the left hazard-identification camera on Spirit during sol 1,277, documents that the arm had repositioned the imager.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell