Spirit and Opportunity have recently captured the attention of many of us as they rove the surface of Mars to help us find out whether life once existed on that distant planet and, if so, how such life
opportunities might be resurrected for the benefit of present-day humankind. It is exciting to observe on television the enthusiasm of NASA's interplanetary space scientists who invented, constructed, and now implemented those space-exploring mechanical rovers to do that task.
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