Winter Haven
NASA's Spirit rover is approaching the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate." The rover's operators selected an area with north-facing slope there as a destination where Spirit would have its best chance of surviving the oncoming winter. The yellow line indicates Spirit's route from early February 2006. Labels indicate the area intended for Spirit to spend many months spanning the rover's third Martian winter, the site where it spent about seven months, and the site where it lost use of the drive motor for one of its six wheels.