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Spirit traveled about 500 million kilometers (311 million miles) on its journey to Mars.
A day - or sol - on Mars is 24 hours, 39 min, 35 sec (1.027 Earth days). Spirit is expected to operate for at least 91 sols on Mars.
Spirit carried a memorial (above) to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia to the surface of Mars.