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01-22-2004, 02:07 PM
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The silent Spirit
NASA can't establish contact with Spirit. That might be some really bad news and I hope they figure out the problem soon.
 If the Spirit is lost that would be another one in a long series of Martian misfortunes, most recent being European Beagle 2. On a more positive note Opportunity is touching down on Saturday. And we are going to Mars! Yeaaaaaaaaahhh!  UMoC |
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01-22-2004, 02:24 PM
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So does that mean that NASA's Spirit is broken??
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01-22-2004, 03:42 PM
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They made it beep an hour or so ago.
When the MGS was overhead they detected a signal, but it was nonsense data. They then tried to talk to it in beeps, managed it for a bit, it stop and then they got a single beep. |
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01-22-2004, 04:31 PM
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Time to reboot is guess.
The idea of sending humans to Mars seems more and more like suicide with every robotic failure. Too bad, I still hope I can witness the first person landing on Mars in my lifetime. |
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01-22-2004, 06:06 PM
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I would hope and imagine that before landing a person on Mars, they'd do at least one trip there without landing. Hopefully, a manned orbit of Mars would reveal just what it is that causes these things to keep happening.
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