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Subj: Spirit phones home again again
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NEWS RELEASE: 2004-033
January 23, 2004
Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status
NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground
controllers sent commands twice for it to do so.
Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of
data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits
at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. The transmission included power
subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill
data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not
provide information.
Spirit had not communicated successfully through Odyssey since the
rover's communications difficulties began on Wednesday.
Spirit's twin, Opportunity, will reach Mars at 05:05 Universal Time on
Jan. 25 (12:05 a.m. Sunday EST or 9:05 p.m. Saturday PST) at a landing
site on the opposite side of the planet from Spirit.
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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