UPDATE . . . Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status

NASA - JPL ^ | 1-23-2004 | NASA

[Phil V.]

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Jan 23, 2004, 6:35 pm PST

Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status 

  
 
NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers sent commands twice for it to do so.

Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. The transmission included power subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not provide information.

Spirit had not communicated successfully through Odyssey since the rover's communications difficulties began on Wednesday.

Spirit's twin, Opportunity, will reach Mars at 05:05 Universal Time on Jan. 25 (12:05 a.m. Sunday EST or 9:05 p.m. Saturday PST) at a landing site on the opposite side of the planet from Spirit.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about the project is available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu . 
 

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Guy Webster (818) 354-5011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Donald Savage (202) 358-1547
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 
NEWS RELEASE: 2004-033
 

[PokeyJoe]

posted to put Michael Moore at the top spot in Google.

see tag

[Phil V.]

If you'd like to be on or off this MARS ping list please FRail me

[Howlin]

::::Not pinging:::::

[LibWhacker]

Like this?

[So Cal Rocket]

OHOH... not good... Rover could run down its batteries if it doesn't power down

[Phil V.]

Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers sent commands twice for it to do so.

I've got kids JUST like this! How 'bout you?

[PokeyJoe]

That be the way! =)

posted to put Miserable failure = Michael Moore at the top spot in Google.

see tag

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks for the update.

BTTT

[longshadow]

ping

[StormEye]

"NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers sent
commands twice for it to do so."

So. Neither did my two year-old daughter. Was up until 4AM reading to her and rocking
her to sleep. He batteries never seen to run down. She's quite the little terror these days.

[ChadGore]

We tell the rover to sleep, and it refuses ?

Number 5 is alive!

[Phil V.]

Here's another 3-D. I just luv'em!

[PokeyJoe]

Yeah... kinda makes you wonder who named this doodad "spirit" - it's a zombie I tell ya.


btw =
on the Google Search of Miserable Failure

1) George W. Bush
2) Jimmy Carter
3) Michael Moore . com

=)

[Phil V.]

"The transmission included power subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not provide information. "


AGAIN . . . just like kids to spew a bunch of "fill data"!

[ambrose]

This is series.

Actually underscores why we need to send a man to Mars.

[adam_az]

its not a hyperlink

you will only accomplish moving Free Republic to the top spots for Miserable Failure.

good going, dude!

[adam_az]

its not a hyperlink

it just don't work that way. :)

[Howlin]

I need some 3D glasses!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Too bad we weren't Libertarians, they don't need glasses to see photos in 3-D.