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Rovers benefit from clearer skies

BBC: Clearing dust storms on Mars have allowed the US space agency's robotic rovers to increase their workload. The vehicles - Opportunity and Spirit - had been kept nearly inactive for six weeks to preserve the limited power being generated by their solar panels. But Nasa says the skies have cleared sufficiently for the rovers to resume some limited driving.

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