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Mars Rover Spirit Restored To Health
NASA - JPL ^ | 02-01-2004 | Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters

Posted on 02/01/2004 5:44:06 PM PST by Phil V.

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1 posted on 02/01/2004 5:44:07 PM PST by Phil V.
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To: xm177e2; XBob; wirestripper; whattajoke; VOR78; Virginia-American; Vinnie_Vidi_Vici; VadeRetro; ...
If you'd like to be on or off this MARS ping list please FRail me

2 posted on 02/01/2004 5:47:32 PM PST by Phil V.
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To: Phil V.
Spirit will resume examination of a rock nicknamed Adirondack later this week and possibly move on to a lighter-colored rock by week's end.

Good, good news! 'Way to go, NASA!

3 posted on 02/01/2004 5:52:13 PM PST by Aracelis
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To: Phil V.
Thanks, excellent news.
4 posted on 02/01/2004 5:54:08 PM PST by blam
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To: Phil V.
Thanks for posting this. It is good to know that Spirit is recovering and will be soon discharged to go back to work.
5 posted on 02/01/2004 5:54:44 PM PST by DeepDish (This space for rent.)
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To: Phil V.
Reformat the flash memory and start clean?
C:\Format C:_
7 posted on 02/01/2004 6:08:30 PM PST by Darksheare (The voices in YOUR head are talking to ME!)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
We did it, you & I! WE ARE heros!!!!!!!
8 posted on 02/01/2004 6:12:06 PM PST by Phil V.
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To: Phil V.
When you wish upon a star... :)

Time to celebrate!
9 posted on 02/01/2004 6:13:06 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'--- Kahlil Gibran)
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To: Phil V.
Excellent news! Way to go!
10 posted on 02/01/2004 6:13:19 PM PST by amom
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To: Phil V.
Maybe the rover will find Osama Ben Laden hiding there.
11 posted on 02/01/2004 6:15:06 PM PST by Soviet
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To: Phil V.
Good news ! Thank you very much !
12 posted on 02/01/2004 6:16:20 PM PST by serurier (We come here for the freedom of the world)
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To: seamole
Hopefully we'll get to the point soon where we can produce and ship one of these rovers for $50 million or less a unit. There's still a lot of Red Planet to explore. (And the outer moons beyond.)

It's too bad the ESA didn't just buy a third MER for their operations. It wouldn't have cost that much more than the Beagle2 and would have had a better chance of success. IMHO, they tried to go their own way for political reasons and paid the price.

13 posted on 02/01/2004 6:17:37 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Darksheare
My first hard drive, A Tall Grass( I thnk ), was connected to a 1982 IBM 8086 plain vanilla PC. I needed to format a floppy and "typoed" Format and formatted that hard drive! Gasp. It was a short time later that the next version of DOS changed the format syntax so that you had to specify the drive to format so that DOS would not do what I had done!!!!
14 posted on 02/01/2004 6:22:57 PM PST by Young Werther
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To: Young Werther
Thankfully, I didn't get to experience such DOS incidents.
But I have experienced Win95's famous blue screen for 'absolutely no reason at all.'
15 posted on 02/01/2004 6:25:50 PM PST by Darksheare (The voices in YOUR head are talking to ME!)
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To: Phil V.
Great news!
16 posted on 02/01/2004 6:29:43 PM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: Darksheare
I upgraded to 98 for just that blankety blank reason. Then the "fatal error" nemisis dogged me until I upgraded to XP.

It's been a long grind from my first Apple II to Apple III to IBM and the many clones over the last 20 years but notwithdtanding the upgrade grind, I sure don't wanna go back!!

17 posted on 02/01/2004 6:44:34 PM PST by Young Werther
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To: Phil V.
Very Cool! Thanks Phil!
18 posted on 02/01/2004 6:56:30 PM PST by jonatron
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To: Phil V.
Cool beans.
19 posted on 02/01/2004 7:00:46 PM PST by Professional Engineer (Spirit/Opportunity~0.002acres of sovereign US territory~All Your Mars Are Belong To Us)
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To: Phil V.
"Good space news" BUMP...
20 posted on 02/01/2004 8:21:19 PM PST by KangarooJacqui (3 out of 4 people ... wonder where the other one got to.)
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