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Why don't they use the RAT more?

Only once used by Spirit so far. I thought they would be hitting every interesting rock in sight with it. Wasn't the data from Pathfinder skewed because they didn't know if the readings they were getting were from the rock or from dust covering the rock? That's what the RAT is for right? Look at how much dust came off Adirondack had even though it "looked clean" at first. It just seems odd it is being used so sparingly. Maybe they are spooked because the one time they used it Spirit had its computer problem??

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