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Mars rovers to get smart upgrade

BBC: The two NASA rovers operating on the surface of Marsare getting a software upgrade to study Martian clouds and dust devils. The new algorithms will give the rovers the ability to sift through their images and send the best candidates of clouds and dust devils back to Earth. The two rovers have exceeded NASA's expectations on how long they could last on the surface by more than 200 days.

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