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Q 11:  What's happening with the Sojourner now?
 
A 11: 
That's a really good question. Nobody really knows. We lost communications with the Lander, and the Rover was programmed to, on its own, make a beeline back to the Lander. The thinking was it may have been out of communications range, and by driving back to the Lander we thought maybe we'd be able to recover from that. We also gave kind of a contradictory command, telling it to go back to the Lander, but don't drive on the Lander. We don't want it to damage the Lander. With those two sets of conflicting input, it's probably going to be driving in a circle around the Lander, on its own, potentially forever. We were joking that we'd go back someday and find this moat around the Lander.
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