blendprod Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 BREAKING NEWS- NASA loses contact with Mars Spirit rover. Details soon. That sucks:blank: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmatas2277 Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 its the weather.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obby Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 PASADENA, Calif. -- Mars Rover officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Thursday that "a serious anomaly" occurred onboard the robot Spirit Wednesday, stopping the transmission of direct data for almost 24 hours. Peter Theisinger, Mars Exploration Rover project manager, began Thursday's press conference by telling reporters that they had not received contact from Spirit, either through relays from the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor or Mars Odyssey spacecraft. However, Jennifer Trosper, mission manager of surface operations, interrupted the press briefing to announce that a signal had been received from the rover via its direct link to Earth. That said, no direct data had yet to be received from the robotic geologist.6:00 a.m. EST.Power positiveGetting tones from Spirit means a number of important things on the rover are in working order. Spirit is in what engineers call "power positive mode" and is maintaining proper temperatures in the frigid air of Mars. It continues to generate power from the Sun with its solar panels, said deputy project manager Richard Cook. The command from Earth requested Spirit to react if it did hear a signal. That response came in the form of a beep, lasting for five minutes. It heard the command and acted upon it.The rover was operating in the day when the problem cropped up. Engineers always worry about the issue of "thermal cycling" -- hardware that must survive repeated day-to-night temperature swings.Theisinger told SPACE.com that this concern can’t be discounted. "Yes something could break…something could fail." But the likelihood of that being the problem is now low on the list of probabilities, he said.Wednesday humpA communiqué released late afternoon Wednesday from JPL indicated an unresolved issue with the status of the rover.According to the statement, ground controllers were able to send commands to Spirit early Wednesday and received a simple signal acknowledging that the rover heard them.However, ground controllers here did not receive expected scientific and engineering data from Spirit during scheduled communication passes during the rest of that Martian day.Officials said weather problems Wednesday at the Australian Deep Space Network receiver, which disrupted communicatins, were not related to Spirit's current quietude.FULL DETAIL HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funketeer Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 This just in, the invation of planet earth has began...everyone run for cover!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 E.T. came out and fucked that bitch up.or tried to hump it.fucking robot looks like #5 Number 5 is alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 thats what u get when u send out an american made POS robot to mars. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexusgroove Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 not funny....they spent over 800Million dallors on this project.....shit... give me 800million and a year of freedom... I'll goto mars after that year of parting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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