This is the machine that the American successfully landed on Mars. It is called Spirit and has been operating for 5 years. It can take pictures and search for water and other interesting things that humans want to know about. This machine has provided us with lots of information about Mars but it looks like there is no life on Mars. Spirit has had a number of problems which have to be fixed from Earth. This is very tricky. Spirit is currently [July 2009] stuck in some soft sand and the engineers are trying to figure out how to get it unstuck. Mars can be from 55 to 400 million kilometers from earth depending on the orbits of the two planets.
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