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Hello, this is the Flight Director update for Wednesday June 2nd and my name is Chris Lewicki. I’m working on Spirit today.

It’s sol 148 at Gusev crater and today Spirit drove 52 meters towards its goal at the Columbia Hills. Today we’re gonna drive about another 60. We could probably drive farther but for the first time in a while we’re not driving as far as we could. We wanna get ourselves into a good spot to survey of the hills so we can plan our path when we finally get there. Also, maybe on sol 149 we’re gonna do some IDD work depending where we end up on that day. And that’s the summary for Spirit.

Opportunity, at Meridiani Planum, is on sol 127 and it is working its way clockwise back around the crater towards Karatepe. Today it drove about 50 meters in that direction and also today was kind of a power lean day today. We’re not deepsleeping tonight. One of the disadvantages in deep sleep is that we would be sleeping through the time when we can only talk to an orbiter as it passes overhead. So, if we were to make the choice between those two, if we want to downlink data overnight, we have to choose not to deep sleep in order to do that. And that is what Opportunity is doing today, so that we can use a particularly good pass with Odyssey to get back a lot of the data that we’ve been collecting at Endurance crater.

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