Spirit or possible loss of it

[drkavnger99]

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]

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]

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]

Beagle found spirit, and started humping it. Now they're making little probes of their own.

 

[chcr]

Beagle found spirit, and started humping it. Now they're making little probes of their own.

Oh dear, machine sex.

 

[Professur]

With James Brown playing in the background.

 

[drkavnger99]

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

 

[Oz]

With James Brown playing in the background.

The machines have got soul!

 

[Gonz]

it's back....unsteady but functioning

 

[chcr]

With James Brown playing in the background.

Not Barry White?

 

[a13antichrist]

With any luck Opportunity can go check out what's happened to Spirit..

 

[IDLEchild]

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]

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