To save money, NASA will switch off Mars Rover Spirit for the Winter. What a disgusting fate for so intrepid an explorer!! What if it won’t wake back up?? Please DIGG this - maybe we can pressure them to restore the $4 Million to JPL. After lasting 1490 days into a ‘90 day mission’ - to be turned off due to lack of money? Hang Tough Rover Team!!
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They decided to keep it back on. $20 million a year it costs to run it. Ouch.
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