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Recovering Spirit Sends a New Picture
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| 28 Jan 2004
| JPL
Posted on 01/28/2004 6:52:11 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took and returned this image on January 28, 2004, the first picture from Spirit since problems with communications began a week earlier. The image from the rover's front hazard identification camera shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack. As it had been instructed a week earlier, the Moessbauer spectrometer, an instrument for identifying the minerals in rocks and soils, is still placed against the rock. Engineers are working to restore Spirit to working order so that the rover can resume the scientific exploration of its landing area.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jpl; mars; nasa; rover; space; spirit
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
To: Fitzcarraldo
GREAT!
This means the instruments, power systems, and comm gear are in working order!
The problem may be in the computer memory, but they can get around it!
...but Mars is a much SMALLER planet than I thought...
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:55:32 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Fitzcarraldo; Phil V.
Good post!
It's b-a-a-a-a-a-ck!
To: Fitzcarraldo
Hey ... I had to beat off a few Martians ... sort of like beating off Iraqi's ... no problem ... give me a beak!
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posted on
01/28/2004 6:58:32 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: Fitzcarraldo
cool.
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posted on
01/28/2004 7:04:25 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: All
bump
To: Fitzcarraldo
The Sand People finally turned it back over! The Martians must be friendly. I nominate Howierd Dean to be Earth's ambasador!
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posted on
01/28/2004 7:20:23 PM PST
by
Nightmare
(From The Left Coast)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Way to be Rover!
Q: What comes after 75?
A : 76?
THATS THE SPIRIT!
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posted on
01/28/2004 7:26:40 PM PST
by
jaz.357
(We should be more open-minded toward people trying to kill us.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Fitzcarraldo
So the rock is football-sized, and the whole planet is about the size of a Chinese soccer ball.
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