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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.

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  1. Re:got some useful data by bhtooefr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think CNet said it was three-keying itself 60 times a day.

  2. Re:Can low-power corrupt memory? by BuckaBooBob · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Its just sitting there with a Blue screen sending a Dr Watson Dump :)

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  3. Re:The data rate is pretty good... by Mod+Me+God+Too · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Phobos... Doom... Quake??? No no no! That is Unreal Tournament!

    BTW, UT kicks the ass of Doom and Quake.

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  4. Re:ISDN to mars by mefus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here ya go:

    rfc3271
    rfc1607

    Could be others...

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  5. Re:The cause has been found by dincubus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    didn't the guys who built spirit have to put those little stickers on the casing of the robot that say "Intel inside" you would think that with 410 million dollars NASA could afford something a little better that Pentium I CPUs. I mean after all the Pentium I had that nasty little FPU problem.

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