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Technicians in white jumpsuits that cover everything but their eyes and nose work on the Spirit rover. The rover has four visible wheels, covered by a rectangular platform. There are many yellow and white cords all over the rover. There is a circular plaque attached to a white antenna.

NASA’s Spirit Rover Gets Looked Over

This plaque commemorating the STS-107 space shuttle Columbia crew looks over the Mars landscape after the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, landed and deployed onto the red planet on Jan. 4, 2004. The plaque, mounted on the high-gain antenna, is shown while the rover underwent final checkout March 28, 2003, in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Image Credit: NASA

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