You can make it. Winter is rapidly advancing on the southern hemisphere on Mars [ http://www.planetar…], and the lack of sunlight could be dangerous unless you find a good place to hibernate [ http://www.pbs.org/…]. There it is ahead: McCool Hill. As the robotic Spirit rover [ http://science.hows…] rolling across Mars, you are told that this will be a good place to spend the Martian winter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. On the north slope of McCool [ http://www.jsc.nasa…] Hill, you can tilt your solar panels [ http://en.wikipedia…] toward the Sun enough to generate the power you need to keep running through the winter. Between you and McCool Hill [ http://www.planetar…] is an unusual reddish outcropping of rocks. Also visible above [ http://photojournal…], unusual layered rocks [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] lie to your right, while other scattered rocks appear either smooth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] or sponge [ http://en.wikipedia…]-like. Fortunately, there is still some time to explore, and the landscape before you may hold more clues to the history of ancient Mars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
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You can make it. Winter is rapidly advancing on the southern hemisphere on Mars [ http://www.planetar…], and the lack of sunlight could be dangerous unless you find a good place to hibernate [ http://www.pbs.org/…]. There it is ahead: McCool Hill. As the robotic Spirit rover [ http://science.hows…] rolling across Mars, you are told that this will be a good place to spend the Martian winter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. On the north slope of McCool [ http://www.jsc.nasa…] Hill, you can tilt your solar panels [ http://en.wikipedia…] toward the Sun enough to generate the power you need to keep running through the winter. Between you and McCool Hill [ http://www.planetar…] is an unusual reddish outcropping of rocks. Also visible above [ http://photojournal…], unusual layered rocks [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] lie to your right, while other scattered rocks appear either smooth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] or sponge [ http://en.wikipedia…]-like. Fortunately, there is still some time to explore, and the landscape before you may hold more clues to the history of ancient Mars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].
