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Spirit is due to touch down the night of Jan. 3. Its landing site is near the center of Gusev Crater, which may have once held a lake. Three weeks later on Jan. 24, Opportunity will reach the Meridiani Planum, a region containing exposed deposits of a mineral that usually forms under watery conditions.
