Jude 2

After spending six years trundling across the rocky surface of the Red Planet, the Mars rover Spirit has finally given up the ghost.

The Nasa rover has driven five miles over plains, plateaus and even up a mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

But now the U.S space agency has conceded defeat after repeated attempts to free it from a sand pit where it has been stuck for the last nine months.

... It has recorded nearly 12 miles on its odometer.