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Spirit and Its Now-Empty Mother Ship

This overhead polar image was captured after NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took a few baby rolls away from the spacecraft that bore it millions of miles to Mars in 2004. The empty lander is seen to the right of the rover.
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Credits: NASA/JPL
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This overhead polar image was captured after the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took a few baby rolls away from the spacecraft that bore it millions of miles to Mars. The empty lander, now named the Columbia Memorial Station, can be seen to the right of the rover. This image was taken by Spirit's navigation camera.