The Rover Spirit completes its longest 5-wheel drive to a rock surface called “Texas Chili.” Scientists call this area a “stratigraphic wonderland.” This area is the focus for an in-depth scientific investigation. Scientist are getting a lot of useful information out of Spirit and it could give us information we did not know about Mars. Spirit begins each Martian day by measuring atmospheric dust with its panoramic camera, checking for drift (changes with time) in the miniature thermal emission spectrometer, and surveys the sky and ground with a miniature thermal emission spectrometer. This is a good article and if you want to find out more about spirit than I recommend that you go to this site:
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