OT- Contact with spirit rover lost

[Rpjunkie]

Well isnt this fun? This is the second no contact with a lander in 2 months. Does anyone else think hmmmm, could there be life somewhere that doesn't want us to know anything about them?
I think with all the stars and extrasolar planets there has to be some somewhere, but this just sucks that we keep losing contact with our rovers.

RPJ

 

[Nebin]

No silly boy, Nasa put the Rover down too close to WoTCs old Alternity test area

 

[thatdarncat]

They have contact - of a sort. The rover is receiving instructions and sending a confimation back. However, none of the expected scientific data is being sent and it just sits there doing nothing.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=4188369&section=news

They can now get a rover to Mars safely. They just need to talk to the people who build Battlebots about how to build something that will take a bit of punishment.

 

[thatdarncat]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-01-22-spirit-quiet_x.htm

 

[Grazzt]

The Martians themselves probably sneak attacked the rover and are screwing around with it as we speak.

 

[MerakSpielman]

They're probably hacking into NASA...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

What's the current score? Mars 5, NASA 3?

 

[ergeheilalt]

What's the current score? Mars 5, NASA 3?

35 Robotic Missions to Mars to date
10 of these missions have been considered Successful

Orbiters/Flybys:
Mariner 4 - First Successful Mars Mission, flyby - July 1965 (launched Nov. 1964)
Mariner 6 - flyby July 1969 (launched Feb. 1969)
Mariner 7 - flyby August, 1969 (launched Mar. 1969)
Mariner 9 - orbiter December, 1971 (launched May 1971)
Viking 1 Orbiter - June 1976 (launched Aug. 1975)
Viking 2 Orbiter - August 1976 (launched Sept. 1975)
Mars Global Surveyor - 1997
Mars Oddessy - 2001
Mars Express - (ESA Dec. 2003), carried the Beagle2

Failed Landers:
Polar Lander
Beagle 2 (European Space Agency)
Mars 2 (USSR - 1971) - first man-made object on Mars
Mars 3 (USSR - 1971) - worked for 110 seconds before failing
Mars 6 (USSR - 1974)

Successful Landers:
Viking 1
Viking 2
Pathfinder
Spirit

Erge - a guy with too much time on his hands

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Sounds like Spirit's chirping again. Maybe they'll get the bug fixed.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Conspiracy theory ramblings:

NASA lost contact with the rover early Wednesday. The next day, Thursday, President Bush visited Roswell, NM. The next day limited contact was re-established with the rover.

Think maybe Bush put in a call to Mars and asked them to let us talk with our machine again?