# The Spirit rover on Mars

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**Created:** [January 4, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-spirit-rover-on-mars/39173 "2004-01-04T13:42:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-spirit-rover-on-mars/39173/1 "2004-01-04T13:42:58Z")

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I was keeping up with the latest on the spirit last night while it made its way on to the martian surface. I fell asleep before any pictures came out though. They’re here now =)

Apparently, it landed in a “near perfect location” for the objectives it was sent out to complete, which is good. But its a very boring flat location 😛

Here is a link recounting the events of the landing (with pictures)  
[http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html](http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html)