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Old 01-27-2010, 01:02 PM   #2025
iainl140285
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Ok, here is a classic Xampl of blatant ncoding ... Nasa accepts Spirit Mars rover 'stuck for good'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8481798.stm

The US space agency (Nasa) has admitted defeat in its battle to free the Spirit rover from its Martian sand trap.

:lightsa bre:

"The robot's predicament has been exacerbated by the failure of two of its six wheels. Without the additional traction, the agency now accepts that further efforts to try to escape the soft soil will be fruitless.

Instead, the mission team is concentrating on trying to get the rover tilted in a manner that will maximise the amount of sunlight falling on its solar panels during the approaching winter months. Engineers have a plan to rock the vehicle back and forth to acquire a more favourable posture.

Even so, it is likely Spirit will maintain so little energy in its batteries that it will go into hibernation, perhaps as soon as April. It will not emerge from that state until August or September, when the Sun gets high enough in the Martian sky to power up the rover's systems.

"The rover will be like a polar bear, hibernating; and it could be for many months - of the order of six months," explained John Callas, Spirit's project manager at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"We have to be prepared to go through a period where we are not hearing from the rover for an extended length of time."

MY SPIRIT WONT BE HIBERNATING ANYTIME SOON!

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