Mars Kicking Spirit When She's Down

The Spirit rover has been stuck in loose soil on Mars for several months now, and just as the rover team is preparing to execute maneuvers to attempt to free Spirit, a dust storm hits. Is Mars an unforgiving planet or what? The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, because of the storm, and Spirit's daily activities have been trimmed. Those watching over the rover are keeping an eye on weather reports from observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While the rover team at JPL are keeping their "spirits" up, a recent image from the rover indicates Spirit herself might be getting frustrated with her string of bad luck:
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