Posted on 01/29/2009 2:43:17 PM PST by james500
NASA engineers are scratching their heads over some unexpected behavior from the long-lived Spirit rover, which began its sixth year exploring Mars this month.
Spirit failed to report in to engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., last weekend, prompting a series of diagnostic tests this week to hunt the glitch's source.
The aging Mars rover did not beam home a record of its weekend activities and, more puzzlingly, apparently failed to even record any of its actions on Sunday, mission managers said.
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By Monday, Spirit's mission controllers decided to tell the rover to find the sun with its camera on Tuesday to determine its location on Mars.
Early Tuesday, the rover beamed back that it had tried to follow the instructions of its human handlers, but couldn't find the sun.
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I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Don’t worry; Obama will fix it tonight after dinner.
It was the weekend - and remember, what happens on Mars, stays on Mars!
>>The aging Mars rover did not beam home a record of its weekend activities and, more puzzlingly, apparently failed to even record any of its actions on Sunday
Musta been one hell of a weekend.
It’s met an intelligent artifact of an ancient civilization and is mating.....Thanks to James Hogan and one of his great novels.
Something needs a bailout..
Martian Warming
It’s probably depressed like a lot of us over the events of last week.
Spirit then beamed back the message... “WHERE’S MY PIE?”
Sarcastic: 0bama just became President ... do you blame it not wanting to work anymore?
Wacko: It Found Evidence of Intelligent Life on MARS!!!! NASA is COVERING IT UP!!!!!
The last message was “All work and no play makes Rover a dull Robot”.
I think Rover tipped over.
Truth mirroring fiction?
The Big Bang Theory (TV Show):
Wolowitz tries to impress a girl by letting her drive the Mars Rover - she drives it into a ditch and it gets stuck - the solution ends up being a deletion of the weekend’s data so Howard won’t get caught. (Season 2, Episode 8)
Early Tuesday, the rover beamed back that it had tried to follow the instructions of its human handlers, but couldn’t find the sun.
following the lead of our new fearless leader, the rover is now also clueless..
Red Rover, Red Rover, sending Obama right over
Weekend at Rover’s.
So the Rover is a college Freshman? Mars U is a lot of fun it seems.........
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