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Spirit may be fading on Mars, NASA says
NASA to Mars rover:Â Phone home or else.
The space agency said it will reach out to contact the Mars rover Spirit a final time Wednesday after a series of unanswered attempts.
NASA speculates that an extreme Martian winter may have frozen the rover’s communication apparatus or weakened its energy level, hindering its ability to communicate.
In a press release Tuesday, NASA said, in essence, what we have here is a failure to communicate.
"We no longer believe there is a realistic probability of hearing from Spirit," Dave Lavery, NASA’s program executive for solar system exploration, said in the release.
Created for a three-month mission, Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004 and exceeded its intended life span by several years, giving scientists an in-depth look at the surface conditions of the red planet.
But there have been obstacles - namely massive dust storms, paralyzing sandboxes and plain ol' feisty weather that has challenged the rover's functionality.
Over most of the past seven years though, despite various violent conditions, Spirit has always managed to re-establish connection.
Not this time.
The last transmission received by the rover was March 22, 2010, NASA said.
The rover program will now focus its energies on Spirit’s twin rover, Opportunity, which landed 21 days after Spirit. Also, NASA is prepping the November launch of Curiosity, a bigger, more-tricked out rover (six 20-inch wheels?) slated to arrive on Mars in mid-2012.
As for Spirit, NASA said any communication from the rover will basically be relegated to voice mail.
“The Deep Space Network may occasionally listen for any faint signals when the schedule permits," Lavery is quoted in the release.
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Fail
No you weren't! HA HA HA HA
Send Captain John Carter to check it out. KAOR!
Did you say John CONNOR?
Wonder if Vin Diesel got to it?
hmmmmm,,,,,, I'm waiting to talk to E.T. .. Leave me alone !!!
Maybe the phone that Spirit was using was from AT&T.....not Verizon.....CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???
....and we have homeless, jobless hungry Americans and this is what we do with our money instead ??? REALLY ??? The people we pay to sit and listen for a robot to talk back....... WOW.. I want that job !!!!
You know what? For something designed for a three MONTH mission, we got darn near six YEARS. That's FAR more of a bargain than anything else the US government has delivered in DECADES.
But you couldn't do their job, because you're an uneducated idiot.
You can't handle that job.
We will always have homeless, jobless and clueless.
But that shouldn't stop those of us from excelling and reaching our potential as a race.
Ugh!
What you fail to realize is that less than 0.6% of the fed budget goes to fund all of NASA.
Really NASAMan? Someone turns on a computer program that listens for the single and then she goes and does other more important work while the program runs. Then she stops back from time to time to peruse the data and if no single she again goes on to do other things.
OK, here it comes.....
I'd rather pay money for space missions than hand it out to a bunch of lazy welfare cases.
OK, bring it on.
"In a press release Tuesday, NASA said, in essence, "What we have here is a failure to communicate.""
Really? Did they really have to use a movie quote?
That wasn't a NASA quote. That's CNN using a movie quote to summarize what NASA said.
Reading comprehension fail.
Rover was sent there for cutting the heads off parking meters, apparently.
Energizer bunny to the rescue!
GET YOU AZZ TO MAHS
FIRST POST, WOO HOO
No, boo hoo
Its last transmission was, "MY GOD, ITS FULL OF STARS".
It's all Obama's fault. It would work if he wasn't so concerned with Isreal.
"What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some rovers, just can't be reached"
We have learned a lot from space exploration. And learning more about the other planets in our solar system has helped up understand our own Mother Earth. Some don't see the need or importance of NASA; including some in the current administration. OH! a side item. On the placement of the retired shuttles: What was New York's contribution to the Space program and how was it decided to be of much greater importance than NASA itself? Obama had nothing to do with it? Yea, right.
Naww.... Obama's is just gathering budget info for the next round of foreign aid for England.
The Queen is running short of jewelry polish.
LOL.... yeah, and at the added expense of who made them what they are.... stealing off the backs of the
Brit working class !!!