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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (35963)	1/22/2004 1:18:36 PM
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Spirit goes incommunicado Associated Press Pasadena, Calif. — NASA's Spirit rover has failed to transmit data from surface of Mars for 24 hours, mission members said Thursday. NASA last heard from Spirit early Wednesday. Since then, it has returned just random, meaningless data — and then only sporadically, scientists said. Initially, the scientists said they believed weather problems on Earth caused the glitch. They now said they believe the rover was experiencing hardware or software problems. "This is a serious problem. This is an extremely serious anomaly," project manager Pete Theisinger said. Spirit is one half of a $820-million mission. Its twin, Opportunity, is scheduled to land on Mars on Saturday. NASA last heard from Spirit as it prepared to continue its work examining its first rock, just a few yards from its lander. Since then, Spirit has transmitted just a few beeps to Earth in response to attempts to communicate with it. It has also skipped several scheduled communications opportunities, either directly with Earth or by way of two NASA satellites in orbit around Mars. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked to pinpoint the yet-unknown problem. "It's not clear there is one cause ... ," deputy project manager Richard Cook said. More to come