Mars Rover Spirit Still Alive
Toren Altair writes with this excerpt from a story at The Space Fellowship: “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.”
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