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Opportunity escapes

Operating well, well past its defined mission lifetime (three months -- it's been over a year!) Opportunity successfully made its way out of a sand pit this weekend. NASA engineers developed an escape strategy using a model and a sand pit here on Earth.

The BBC story

Bravo.

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