Guest Pauly Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 NASA scientists says they have lost contact with the robot rover Spirit on Mars and are unsure what has caused the problem. Spirit project manager Pete Theisinger told a news briefing on Thursday that there was a "very serious anomaly" in communications with the six-wheeled craft, which landed on Mars on January 3 on a planned three month mission to explore the geologic history of the planet. Theisinger said scientists had been unable to communicate with Spirit for about 24 hours, adding that scientists had so far been unable to explain the source of the problem. Maybe there IS life on Mars after all and Spirit has decided that they are more fun than we are. Anyone got their own ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grissom Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Current story on BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3421071.stm "There is no single fault that explains all the observables." There is if they are using anything from Microsoft ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango2 Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Maybe its crashed into the Beagle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 No wonder it's broken down... it's a Rover (Credit goes to that guy who e-mailed BBC Breakfast) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Miguel Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Are we sure it's not the beagle who's called Rover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Not sure if that's a real question? But yes, the Nasa machine is the one called Rover Ahh... wait... as in it's called Rover because a beagle is a dog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grissom Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Spirit has managed to speak again for a couple of short periods... ------------------- The US space agency said the first communication with Spirit occurred at 1234 GMT and lasted for 10 minutes. The data rate was weak at 10 bits per second. The second contact came at 1326 GMT and lasted 20 minutes. On this occasion, the data was fed at a rate of 120 bits per second. ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Miguel Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Originally posted by Geoff Not sure if that's a real question? But yes, the Nasa machine is the one called Rover Ahh... wait... as in it's called Rover because a beagle is a dog? Perhaps the next two craft to go to Mars will be called Labrador and Fido. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 i remember reading a book by Harry Turtledove about a mission to Mars. The last thing that the probe sent back was a picture of a martian with a length of 4x2 about to clobber it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Obvious what's happened init !!!? The martians have switched it off ... cos they don't want us spying on em .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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