Pathfinder Controllers Adjusting

The battery on the rover Sojourner--which supplies power for analysis of rock composition on the surface of Mars--is depleted and cannot be recharged. The 300-watt-hour lithium thionyl chloride battery primarily was used to make night-time measurements with the rover's Alpha Proton X-Ray...

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