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Mars Rover Spirit Still Alive

Posted by timothy on from the brief-flower's-bloom dept.

Toren Altair writes with this excerpt from a story at The Space Fellowship: "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of 'She's talking!' among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 'This means Spirit has not gone into a fault condition and is still being controlled by sequences we send from the ground,' said John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., project manager for Spirit and its twin, Opportunity."

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  1. This was a triumph! by White+Flame · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm making a note here:
    HUGE SUCCESS.

  2. Everyone Dance! by compro01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
    Ah, ha, ha, ha,
    Stayin' alive.
    Stayin' alive.
    Ah, ha, ha, ha,
    Stayin' alive.

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  3. NASA Automotives by supun · · Score: 5, Funny

    It rains and my stupid car won't start. Their little rover can travel to a different planet, survive the cold, survive dust storms, etc and keep going. Maybe instead of bailing out the "big three", we should dump all that money into NASA to make cars.

    I'm willing to risk my safety on a metric to standard conversion problem for a car that will run.

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    1. Re:NASA Automotives by rampant+mac · · Score: 5, Funny

      "...and travel at a maximum speed of 3 mph, while taking up three lanes..."

      So, sort of like selling a Cadillac to a senior citizen?

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    2. Re:NASA Automotives by Belial6 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's not fair. OnStar can also route all audio from your car to any law enforcement group that wants to keep an eye on you!

    3. Re:NASA Automotives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Spirit has gone 4.8 miles so far, and Opportunity has gone 7.68 miles.

      +36 Million miles each if you count the commute to work.

    4. Re:NASA Automotives by smussman · · Score: 5, Funny

      nah, old people only drive slow when you're in a hurry.

      I think this is more accurate.

  4. Re:Ummm by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's doing science and it's still alive.

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  5. Re:It is not Mars Rovers by coxymla · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't be, the chances of anything like that coming from Mars are a million to one!

  6. Re:Setup a status page by cheetham · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is even one for if the LHC has destroyed the world or not!