NASA's Spirit Rover Examines Unusual
Rock
NASA's Spirit rover stopped to examine an unusual, flaky rock on
the surface of Mars Sunday as scientists prepared to send it on a
trek that would more than double its one-day distance record. The
Mars Explorer team hopes the rover will travel about 82 feet by
Tuesday morning and make the same distance again during the
afternoon. Spirit's longest previous trek was 70 feet in a day, the
record for any robot on the Martian surface. Before setting out on
Monday's trek, Spirit is examining the flaky rock, dubbed
"Mimi."
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