Mars: What happened to the Spirit Rover

I can t move and it s getting cold. If the Spirit rover could speak, this is what it would have said. Our story begins in 2004, January 4th. The spirit rover slams into the dusty surface of Mars, bouncing on its airbags 28 times before coming to rest. It landed about 13 kilometres away from the targeted site, in the Gusev Crater. The team at NASA informally named the landing site Columbia Memorial Station, in honour of the astronauts who were lost in the Columbia disaster, just the year before in 2003. After a successful landing, Spirit opens its eyes. This is the first colour image Spirit captured, which was, at that time; the highest definition image ever taken on another planet. So far the mission was running smoothly, but that was all about to change. On January 21st, Spirits 17th Martian day, mission control suddenly lost contact with the rover. The next day, Spirit sent a short beep, confirming that it had received a signal from Earth but that the rover believed it was in some sort