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Hi, I’m Jake Matijevic of the Mars Exploration Rover Project and I’ll be giving the Flight Director Report for July 15th, 2005.

Today is sol 524 in the early morning at the Spirit site. And yesterday Spirit drove approximately 26 meters away from the Independent outcrop up into the Columbia Hills and up towards Husband Hill, which is its new target for observation in the Columbia Hills area.

On the other side of the planet Opportunity moved again another 25 meters into the Meridiani Plain on its way to Erebus crater. Opportunity has made nearly half of its trip to Erebus crater and will continue on that path for the next several weeks.

Both vehicles have benefited from clearing skies at the two landing sites and energy has improved also due to some dust clearing events which we’ve seen on both vehicles.

And that’s what’s happening on Mars today. Thank you.