FLORIDA: The Mars rover Spirit is stuck in soft soil while driving along a low plateau.NASA said on Tuesday that engineers have temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they diagnose the problem. The six-wheeled Spirit has five working wheels. Its right-front wheel stopped functioning three years ago. The remaining five wheels sunk halfway into the Martian ground during a recent series of backward drives. Spirit and its twin Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004. Last month, Spirit suffered bouts of amnesia, but has since recovered.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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