NASA’s Spirit rover stopped transmitting data from the surface of Mars for more than 24 hours, mission members said Thursday.
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NASA last heard from Spirit early Wednesday. Since then, it has returned just random, meaningless data
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CadillaqJaq
Bummer. I was hoping that Rover would discover the American Flag that Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-TX, thought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left there earlier.
bittern
MARS ATTACKS!! The Mars Spirit rover has stopped sending intelligible data back to Earth in the past 24 hours, mission officials said today. The project manager, Peter C. Teisinger, described the problem as “a very serious anomaly on the vehicle.” President Bush announced that cruise missiles had been fired to “send a message” to “whoever is messing with us.”
HH
I think they got a signal now…
Pixy Misa
Yeah, they got a response back saying, basically, “I’m still alive but I don’t feel to good.” Now the NASA techies are trying to debug it remotely, knowing that sending the wrong command may take it offline permanently.
I’ve done my share of remote debugging – albeit with far less riding on success – and I feel for them. Hope they make it.