From: "Randy H" 

The story on the radio here has a cutaway picture of 2 10-yr olds
controlling the thing from the Internet, with the one child saying
"Coool!" and the next kid saying "hey-it's my turn
now!".

I took Geo's picture here and added the headline caption:

"Last picture taken by the Mars rover before it went dark" and
hunt it outside my cube.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:40103bf5{at}w3.nls.net...
> Those wild and wacky Martians are at it again ;-)
>
>
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000C6428-1C4C-1010-9
C4C83414B7F0000
>
> Mars Rover Stops Sending Data
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>
> Image: NASA
>
> The Mars rover Spirit has stopped transmitting data to Earth, NASA
> scientists say. The communication difficulties indicate a "serious anomaly
> on the vehicle," according to project manager Peter Theisinger.
>
> Since its landing on the Red Planet on January 3, the robotic rover has
been
> sending back large amounts of information, including colorful images of
the
> Martian landscape, to its Earth-bound controllers. Attempts by NASA to
> contact the rover with instructions on Wednesday morning showed signs of
> trouble, but the scientists thought that a thunderstorm over the Canberra
> station in Australia was to blame for the bad connection. But neither did
> the next scheduled connection a few hours later go as planned; over the
past
> 24 hours, Spirit has missed opportunities to return meaningful information
> both through the Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey spacecraft and through
> direct-to-Earth transmission. In terms of trying to explain what has gone
> wrong, Theisinger remarks that "there is no one single fault that explains
> all the observables."
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