Video: Free Spirit: Into the Sandbox

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Rover Project Manager John Callas explains how getting a test rover stuck in a sandbox on Earth may help get Spirit out of a predicament on Mars.

JPL engineers drove a test rover into a specially prepared sandbox where it became embedded, simulating Spirit's situation on Mars.