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		<title>Spirit Rover Snaps Pictures of Her Undercarriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been embedded in a rut of floury sand for several weeks now, NASA's Mars Rover has successfully used its microscopic imager to shoot a collage of her underbelly. 


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		<title>Spirit Rover Update &#8211; Stuck Mars Rover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA is currently planning on imaging the underbody of the immobile rover to see just how badly Spirit is trapped in the sand.


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/space-nasa-robots/spirit-rover-update-stuck-mars-rover/</link>
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		<title>Mars Rover Stuck in Deep Sand, says NASA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Spirit, one of NASA's Mars rovers, became stuck in deep sand. NASA engineers are working to find the best method of freeing the aging rover.


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		<link>http://roboticsblog.org/2009/space-nasa-robots/mars-rover-stuck-in-deep-sand-says-nasa/</link>
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		<title>How To Move A Robot In Sand &#8211; Remember Rhex?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember Rhex?  Boston Dynamics
Researchers have created a Rhex-like robot for the sand. They&#8217;ve found that when the robot slowed it&#8217;s legs down just before they hit the sand,  the legs didn&#8217;t sink into the sand as much and were able to move forward at over one body length per second. Previous tests without the [...]


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