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drkavnger99
1/23/04, 01:42pm
PASADENA, California (CNN) -- After two days having trouble with transmissions, the Mars rover Spirit sent data Friday morning to its NASA flight team in a communications session lasting at least 20 minutes, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/23/spirit.contact/index.html

Is it just me or does this planet just eat all man made machinery that lands on the surface. I just hope nasa can figure out if this is just something that happend to spirit or if its going to happen with its sister ship opportunity. Spirits not a complete loss yet lets hope!
paul_valaru
1/23/04, 01:45pm
the martians beat on it, with their martian hammers, which are a lot like our hammers, only diffrent.

nothing lasts there, it's strange
MrBishop
1/23/04, 01:48pm
I'm more worried about future trips to Mars than the current trip. The information that it's giving back is incredibly usefull...and it would be a loss if we lost transmission permanently. Hopefully, we'll figure out what we're doing wrong before we start sending people up there :)
Professur
1/23/04, 01:53pm
Beagle found spirit, and started humping it. Now they're making little probes of their own.
chcr
1/23/04, 01:57pm
Beagle found spirit, and started humping it. Now they're making little probes of their own.

Oh dear, machine sex.
Professur
1/23/04, 01:58pm
With James Brown playing in the background.
drkavnger99
1/23/04, 02:08pm
Beagle found spirit, and started humping it. Now they're making little probes of their own.

LOL a beagle and a rover hmm good ole puppy love i guess :banana2:
Oz
1/23/04, 03:43pm
With James Brown playing in the background.


The machines have got soul! :eek5:
Gonz
1/23/04, 09:14pm
it's back....unsteady but functioning
chcr
1/23/04, 10:17pm
With James Brown playing in the background.

Not Barry White?
a13antichrist
1/26/04, 03:24am
With any luck Opportunity can go check out what's happened to Spirit..
IDLEchild
1/26/04, 03:29am
With any luck Opportunity can go check out what's happened to Spirit..


It'll be slow as hell mission to check up on it. Spirit travelled 10 feet in 30 min so I don't have much faster hopes for Oppertunity. Oppertunity might also succumb to the red planet.
drkavnger99
1/26/04, 12:08pm
It'll be slow as hell mission to check up on it. Spirit travelled 10 feet in 30 min so I don't have much faster hopes for Oppertunity. Oppertunity might also succumb to the red planet.
Only problem being they're also on total opposite sides of the planet, it would make for even more slow going! But you know love may be in the air and it could see them through :banana2::retard5: