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Spirit is Out the Gate

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit the rover's view of the martian landscape from its position 1 meter (3 feet) northwest of the lander.
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Credits: NASA/JPL
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JPL engineers played Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the control room as they watched new images confirming that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully rolled off its lander platform early Thursday morning. This image from the rover's front hazard identification camera shows the rover's view of the martian landscape from its new position 1 meter (3 feet) northwest of the lander. One of the rover's next tasks will be to locate the Sun with its panoramic camera and calculate from the Sun's position how to point its main antenna toward Earth.