<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f35d377b-7f7a-4403-b349-68f382e65cfa/66E05724-D7A2-4C59-9D12-33C1846412D3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_sc/sci_mars_rovers" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_sc/sci_mars_rovers" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_sc/sci_mars_rovers"><H1>Spirit rover's wheels stuck in soft Martian dirt</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_sc/sci_mars_rovers"><P>PASADENA, Calif. – The <SPAN id="lw_1242085595_0" class="yshortcuts">Mars rover Spirit</SPAN> has gotten stuck in soft Martian dirt while driving along a low plateau.</p> <P><SPAN id="lw_1242085595_1" class="yshortcuts">NASA</SPAN> said Monday that engineers have temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they diagnose the problem.</p> <P>Spirit and its twin Opportunity have been exploring Mars for more than five years, well beyond initial expectations.</p> <P>The six-wheeled Spirit has five working wheels. Its right front wheel stopped functioning three years ago. The remaining five wheels sunk halfway into the Martian ground during a recent series of backward drives.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/66E05724-D7A2-4C59-9D12-33C1846412D3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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