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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. MOD parent up. by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...and chop a couple of digits of his uid for that reference.

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  2. Re:NASA Automotives by tkjtkj · · Score: 0, Redundant

    tell *that* to the guys who screwed up the programming on one of those intended-mars-lander missions! Remember?? it collided with martian surface because of an error in units ! Wish i could rememember the exact mission ... Anyone?? tkjtkj

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