Photos: Mars rover Spirit down but not out

Accumulated dust has collected on the rover's solar panels, but was blown clear by a rare wind gust. The Spirit is still stuck, but it now has more energy than the panels have collected in years. So the team decided to turn the cameras toward the sky for astronomical observations. This is a view of the night sky on June 22, or Martian sol 1,943. Most of what you see are not stars, just hot pixels. The bright streak on the left is Canopus.