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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 5307730" data-attributes="member: 11437">June 18The energy signature from EROS indicates that it has stopped somewhere near Calaveras Mons.  It's been in the same spot for the better part of four hours.  This is the first time I've been able to determine that EROS has stopped for a significant length of time.  I don't know if Calaveras is where the team intended to stop all along... or if something has happened to them.  It's entirely possible that the team has exited the vehicle and is conducting ground surveys; that is what they were sent to Mars to do, after all.  Why do I have the sickening feeling that something has gone wrong?***Lloyd just called from Attenborough Station.  He has some big news about the second transmission.  He says that the entire message loops three times in 13.1 seconds.  Lloyd thinks it might be an automated message, which makes sense to me.  If the message is indeed automated, I wonder what that means for the possibility that something is alive down there.  I wonder how long that automated message has been on a loop.Lloyd hasn't been able to translate the message into anything meaningful in English or any of thirteen other Earth languages he's tried.  He mentioned the possibility that the message may not be translatable; it may be a simple mathematic code meant to alert passersby that something is on Mars.  Something of interest.  Or something to fear.</blockquote>