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Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the randy-california-not-available-for-comment dept.

gfilion writes "NASA has released a press release that says: '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.'" They've been having communications troubles with Spirit since Wednesday, so it's good to hear from it again, even if the data is just filler.

5 of 477 comments (clear)

  1. no shirts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no shoes
    no niggers
    gnaa sux

  2. java onboard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    it got to be some stupid java code that is causing all of this!

  3. And here is the debugging information... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    SPIRIT has experienced a GENITAL PROTECTION FAULT in module CONDOM.DLL

  4. Uh...yeah, sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Never fails. Someone at Slashdot without nearly enough info to do more than speculate will come up with a possible scenario to explain something (with nothing to back it up, mind you) and it'll get mod'ed +5 Interesting.

    I'm sure the folks at NASA and JPL are slapping their foreheads in a 'eureka' moment after reading this post.

  5. Re:Can low-power corrupt memory? by tellurion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    sorry, IANASAS


    oh wait,

    I am not a Slashdot acronym specialist.
    what was i am not supposed to do again?