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Subj: Spirit phones home, briefly
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NEWS RELEASE: 2004-30
January 23, 2004
Mars Exploration Rover Updated Mission Status
The flight team for NASA's Spirit received data from the rover in a
communication session that began at 13:26 Universal Time (5:26 a.m. PST)
and lasted 20 minutes at a data rate of 120 bits per second.
"The spacecraft sent limited data in a proper response to a ground
command, and we're planning for commanding further communication
sessions later today," said Mars Exploration Rover Project Manager Pete
Theisinger at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
The flight team at JPL had sent a command to Spirit at 13:02 Universal
Time (5:02 PST) via the NASA Deep Space Network antenna complex near
Madrid, Spain, telling Spirit to begin transmitting.
Meanwhile, the other Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity is on course to
land halfway around Mars from Spirit, in a region called Meridiani
Planum, on Jan. 25 (Universal Time and EST; Jan. 24 at 9:05 p.m. PST).
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about the project is
available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov
and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu
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