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  1. You can get our mission updates on your Facebook page. Text "fan NASAJPL" to FBOOK (32665) from your mobile phone to be added instantly.
  2. It's dust storm season on Mars & one is picking up over Spirit's location. Keeping a close eye on the storm & Spirit's power levels.
  3. A second set of "wheels" joins the JPL team testing ways to "Free Spirit" from that pesky, soft Martian soil: http://bit.ly/BsWhz
  4. Spirit is celebrating sol 2000 on Mars today! From @mars_stu a lovely new astropoem on the 2K milestone: http://bit.ly/2QrYo0
  5. @bibbleco Thank you! It's actually MER-A, Spirit, celebrating 2K today. What a feat!
  6. @andreackelly Spirit's team is doing a few more tests on Earth before sending commands to drive.
  7. @darkcooger our teams refer to both rovers as "she" as you would refer to ships.
  8. Mars has quite a past, and that recent meteorite find by Oppy is telling us interesting stories about it: http://bit.ly/GBZbp
  9. Get out 3D glasses to view this cool pic of Oppy's iron-nickel meteorite: http://bit.ly/16Aa09 It measures .6 meter (2 ft) wide
  10. @CindyWalker09 We've seen the T-shirts on cafepress.com Search for Spirit and rover and they should turn up.
  11. Oppy comes across an interesting find: a possible meteorite measuring 70cm (27inches): http://bit.ly/4uSTuc Stopping to study it.
  12. Sandbox testing to "free Spirit" is nearly completed. Also, an instrument on MRO detects a dust storm brewing: http://bit.ly/Q6E7z
  13. @LJespersen that's exactly what the science team is doing. They're very interested in the soil there (@NASAJPL live > http://ustre.am/25IX)
  14. @trahodrone Will do! Scott's our hero too. (@NASAJPL live > http://ustre.am/25IX)
  15. 1 hour till we start the live vidchat w/ the rover team working to free Spirit. Join us w/ your questions 6p EDT http://ustre.am/25IX
  16. (Note time fix!) Rescuing a rover: Join us for a live "Free Spirit" video chat/Q & A. Thurs., 3p PT (6p ET/22UTC) at http://ustre.am/25IX
  17. @rbonini there is a rover rss feed (perhaps poorly promoted) Find it at www.jpl.nasa.gov/freespirit under the rover graphic.
  18. Rescuing a rover: Join us Thurs., 3p ET (22UTC) at http://ustre.am/25IX for a live "Free Spirit" video chat/Q & A. Bring your questions!
  19. Crab-testing a rover: New video on 'Free Spirit' testing http://bit.ly/5SRZ9 .All updates (text, pics, vids) at http://bit.ly/freespirit
  20. A rainbow on Mars? Not quite-it's a swirling Martian dust devil caught by color camera filters on Spirit seconds apart: http://bit.ly/4kDUtC