Spirit Is Back In Contact

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-23 02:26pm

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/30.cfm

Updated Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status
January 23, 2004

The flight team for NASA's Spirit received data from the rover in a communication session that began at 13:26 Universal Time (5:26 a.m. PST) and lasted 20 minutes at a data rate of 120 bits per second.

"The spacecraft sent limited data in a proper response to a ground command, and we're planning for commanding further communication sessions later today," said Mars Exploration Rover Project Manager Pete Theisinger at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

The flight team at JPL had sent a command to Spirit at 13:02 Universal Time (5:02 PST) via the NASA Deep Space Network antenna complex near Madrid, Spain, telling Spirit to begin transmitting.

Meanwhile, the other Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity is on course to land halfway around Mars from Spirit, in a region called Meridiani Planum, on Jan. 25 (Universal Time and EST; Jan. 24 at 9:05 p.m. PST).

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about the project is available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu.

Glad to see that things are apparently back under control...I was dreading a FUBAR of a mission.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2004-01-23 02:36pm

I see that it has finished its secret mission for Halibuton and has mapped all oil deposits on Mars.... Then back in contact with NASA..

*Tinfoil Hat off*

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-01-23 02:38pm

Hurray, we won the War on Terror on Mars! I bet the Spirit destroyed every martian base it found.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-01-23 03:07pm

http://www.freakingnews.com/entries/1500/1784TAcy_w.jpg

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-23 04:25pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:http://www.freakingnews.com/entries/1500/1784TAcy_w.jpg

got a big white screen on that one...

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-01-23 04:31pm

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