Heading to "Home Plate" (1)

Spirit continues to make progress toward "Home Plate", a conspicuous circular feature scientists hope to investigate before the beginning of the freezing Martian Winter, in search of layered rock outcrops that may provide additional information about the geology of the Columbia Hills. During the past week, the Rover has driven nearly 100 mt (about 328 feet), and has still had time to do some targeted remote sensing.
Spirit is currently just less than 170 mt (about 560 feet) from Home Plate.

During the past week, engineers noticed some anomalies in dynamic braking on two of the steering motors, similar to previous events on Spirit. Based on analysis and testing, they were able to continue the drive without incident.