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"text": "September 19, 2005, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover \"OPPORTUNITY\"\nNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the \"Erebus Highway.\" \"Erebus Crater,\" the rover's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position"
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