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re: Anybody else thinking it's taking forever for Spirit to get to a cool new overlook?

They had major slippagetrouble in a sandy area and a pebble stuck in a wheel for a while - almost a month without moving.

They've made good progress for about a week since however - and are perhaps 50m short of Larrys Lookout - and are stopping at an interesting rock/outcrop for IDD work now.

The Front Right wheel sticky-situation has actually self-cured, and it draws no more current that the other wheels currently - most probably because of the ammount of backwards driving they did up the front of West Spur and around it's northern edge.

The plan is to drive both rovers regularly backwards to ensure even distribution of greese in the gearing

Doug

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