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| | Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Mars for Press |
 | | Pacific Daylight Time on June 24), will be targeted to a separate site with different signs of a watery past. |
 | | The spacecraft's cruise-phase schedule before arriving at Mars next Jan. 4, Universal Time (Jan. 3 in Eastern and Pacific time zones), includes a series of tests and calibrations, plus six opportunities for maneuvers to adjust its trajectory. |
 | | JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for the NASA Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Information about the rovers and the scientific instruments they carry is available online from JPL at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu. |
| mars.jpl.nasa.gov /mer/newsroom/pressreleases/20030610a.html (296 words) |
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