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Old 10-March-2006, 10:07 PM
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JPL is sending the command for the spacecraft to go back to the high-gain antenna. It will take 12 minutes for the signal to get to Mars and another 12 to get the first high-gain signal.

Meanwhile, the spacecraft should have completed its slew back to Earth-pointing mode.
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