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We hadn't visited the NASA Mars rovers in a while here at Gizmodo, so I thought I'd take a look today and see what they're up to. Unfortunately, things could be better. You see, while Opportunity continues to function nominally after nearly six years on planet, its companion Spirit, on the opposite side of the planet, is really showing signs of age. As we all know, Spirit has been stuck in deep Martian...MSNBC.com: Space News (subscribe...
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- NASA Mars Spirit Rover Has Recurring Case of Amnesia (gizmodo.com)
December 15, 2003 An artist's concept portrays a NASA Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars. Two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, will reach Mars in January 2004. Each has the mobility and toolkit to function as a robotic geologist....This item belongs to: image/nasa.This item has files of the following types: JPEG, Metadata
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- Endurance' All Around Vertical) (archive.org)
- Making Tracks on Mars (archive.org)
- Rover Wheel Sizes (archive.org)
Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year. In these amnesia events, Spirit fails to record data from the day's activities onto the type of computer memory -- non-volatile "flash" memory -- that can retain the data when the rover powers down for its energy-conserving periods of "sleep."
From sciencedaily.com
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- Mars rover Spirit has amnesia — again (news.google.com)
Poor Spirit, the little Mars rover, is still stuck in a rut. Since May, engineers on the Mars Exploration Rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been conducting a "Free Spirit" campaign so that the robot can get back to, well, roving.
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From pasadenastarnews.com
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The Mars Exploration Rover was designed to be stowed in the nose of a Delta II rocket. Each spacecraft consists of several components:
- Rover: 185 kg (408 lb)
- Lander: 348 kg (767 lb)
- Backshell / Parachute: 209 kg (461 lb)
- Heat Shield: 78 kg (172 lb)
- Cruise Stage: 193 kg (425 lb)
- Propellant: 50 kg (110 lb)
Total mass is 1,063 kg (2,343 lb).
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