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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by spaceships. You wouldn't believe how

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much gas those things guzzle.

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Which of the following statements about the Mars Exploration Rovers is NOT true?

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This question wants us to figure out which answer choice is telling a lie. We could use

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some advanced interrogation techniques to get the truth out of them...

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Or we can just skim the passage to double- check anything we've forgotten.

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Let's start the elimination process with choice (C).

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The passage does tell us explicitly that the rovers' mission lasted six years, so this

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answer choice is bye.

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But how about answer (D)?

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Nope, the passage tells us that the Mars Exploration Rovers' mission is considered NASA's biggest

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Mars success, so choice (D) is rejected.

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Line 24 tells us that the rovers were launched in the summer of 2003, so we can eliminate (A) as well.

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This leaves us with choice (B), which we know to be untrue, because line 25 tells us that

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the rovers were actually named Spirit and Opportunity.

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Apparently, everybody at NASA tried to think of something even sappier, but failed.

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