Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:40:06 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Wouldn't work as fiction
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Mars scientists and engineers are elated about a dust-busting blast
that has struck the Spirit rover at its Gusev crater exploration site.

"Turns out that a Martian whirlwind -- dubbed a dust devil -- likely
zoomed over the robot high up in the Columbia Hills. That fleeting flyby
effectively cleaned Spirit's solar arrays, giving the robot a new lease
on life.

"Engineers report that the rover's power reading quickly shot up to
almost as high as when the rover landed on Mars over a year ago."

<http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/03/15/rover.spirit/index.html>