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Old 12-November-2008, 08:42 PM
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Default Spirit may be a goner! UPDATE: Comm restored!
The come in three’s. Spirit has a serious power problem and may not return to the land of conscious.

http://www.space.com/news/081112-mars-rover-spirit.html
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I wonder if the hills cause an increase in dust precipitation in the vicinity of Spirit.
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Spirit has a serious power problem and may not return to the land of conscious.
Some discussion is underway, since yesterday, from article in topic Mars rover news, onward.
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Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA's Spirit Rover

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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.

The solar-powered rover still has low energy, a condition worsened by a dust storm in recent days. Today's communication confirmed that Spirit had received commands sent on Tuesday and that the battery charge had not fallen low enough to trigger a pre-programmed fault mode.

Callas said, "The baby is crying, which means it is healthy enough to communicate normally. Now we are analyzing the data we've received to determine what the next commands should be, but this is all good news."
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I'm amazed both MERs are still working as well as they are. I hadn't seen this latest headline regarding Spirit; thanks.

A dust storm also recently contributed to Phoenix's demise; of course Phoenix was soon to "go" anyway.
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