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Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 608
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 8:39 am: |     |
I don’t care what it cost or if we should have done it or not but I’m a little bummed that the Spirit stopped transmitting signals. It would have been cool to read about the things it was discovering. Luckily Opportunity is scheduled to land (bounce) on Saturday.
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jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 295
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:03 am: | |
So cool...
http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f2_mars.html
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 609
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:07 am: | |
great link!! |
Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1461
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 9:16 am: | |
Dont give up the ship yet. If they can debug the software, which in my limited understanding they think is the culprit, there is still hope.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 611
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:02 am: | |
From what I could find NASA does have the ability to reprogram the rover, so if it’s software they can fix it. If it’s a hardware problem it’s pretty grim.
I was a little surprised that they could send patches and reboot the rover but I guess that they really don’t have to worry about hackers on Mars.
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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1462
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:07 am: | |
quote:I guess that they really don’t have to worry about hackers on Mars.
Yea..but how cool if they did have to worry. Thats kind of what the trip is all about.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 613
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:17 am: | |
Wouldn’t it be great if they found a fossil or something! |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 1835
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 10:46 am: | |
...or that thing it was last seen drilling into wasn't really a rock...
Seriously, this is a shame. But it seems to still be ticking, they get signals from it occasionally. Maybe a reboot is all it needs (works for my computers here on Earth!) |
Dave Ross
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 6182
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 11:00 am: | |
Without the Mars rover we'd never get to use words like telemetry. That's got to be worth a few million right there. |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 614
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 11:19 am: | |
It's Back!
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_talks_040123.html
This has got to be a typo right "Data was transmitted at a rate of 10 bits per second" |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 934
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 12:17 pm: | |
too bad someone cant go up to it and just rap it on the side a few times. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2655
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 1:03 pm: | |
I like to speculate that there was life on Mars once, but as it became unhabitable due to distance from a cooling sun or whatever, that life migrated to earth and here we are...
Too much Ray Bradbury I guess. |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 89
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 1:11 pm: | |
check out these really great images of Mars taken from orbit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3423301.stm
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Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1468
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 7:04 pm: | |
monster..GREAT link. Thanks.
Love the BBC site.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
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