The Spirit rover landed near the area.

The Spirit rover reaches one Martian year on the surface of Mars.

On occasion a spacecraft is placed in safe mode deliberately by mission control as the Spirit rover was on sol 451.

Spirit rover has had several incidents with safe mode.

Gribble manages to contact Milo and let him know how he is by using the Spirit rover as a communication station.

The Spirit rover takes the first picture ever of Earth from the surface of another planet which happens to be Mars.

A rock on Mars where the Spirit rover performed some scientific tests.

Two nickel-iron meteorites were identified by the Spirit rover.

Granted, the Spirit rover didn't work as well as expected in its initial Mars outings.

The Spirit rover, on the other side of the planet was getting slightly more sunlight than Opportunity.