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Kenai Air Alaska pilot Marc Johnston inspects the Dante II robot Saturday after it was airlifted from a volcanic crater to the airport at Kenai, Alaska. More than a week after a misstep sent the 1,700-pound NASA explorer sprawling in the boulder-strewn landscape in the Mount Spurr crater, Dante was lifted from its rocky perch by a helicopter and set down several thousand feet lower.

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