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I'm Jake Matijevic with the Mars Exploration Project and I'll be giving the Flight Director's Report for August 5th 2005.

Today is sol 565 on Spirit.

On sol 563 Spirit completed a series of investigations on a rock target called Voltaire Outcrop up in the Columbia Hills.

It will be moving today, plan is for it to move today, to another target in the same area and continue detailed in situ investigations over the course of the next weekend.

This has been a very intensive series of investigations on this rock outcrop, which should wrap up sometime at the beginning of next week.

At that time Spirit will begin moving again toward the summit of the hill.

On the other side of the planet, Opportunity is in sol 545 and has moved on to an out crop in which it is also doing in situ investigations over this week.

During the course of the last two weeks Opportunity has slowly found more and more out crop rocks as it has moved to Erebus Crater.

In the course of the next week or so Opportunity will again move toward Erebus Crater which is about a 150 meters away from its current position.

And that's what's happening on Mars today.

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