As the brutal Martian winter approaches the area in which NASA's rover Spirit is stuck in deep sand, engineers are saying they may not be able to get Spirit roving again. Aside from the sand, only four of the rover's six wheels are functioning, and only one of those on the vehicle's right side.
If NASA decides the rover is stuck for good, attempts will shift to trying to position Spirit's solar panels so that they collect as much energy from the Sun as possible, thus allowing Spirit to continue to do science as a stationary probe.
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