Opportunity rolling around on Mars
Opportunity is on the ground roving around. Actually the NASA JPL folks rolled off Opportunity a day early. They have already started collecting science. [Space Today]
Soyuz launches Progress ship to ISS
A progress spacecraft has been launched to the ISS to replace one that was de-orbited yesterday. [SpaceToday]
Spirit sends home pictures
Spirit has sent home some pictures and will be resuming light science work while the engineers get the rover back to 100% mission capability. [NASA JPL]
Columbia’s Final Minutes
I am saddened by reading the account carried by Newsday.com on Columbia’s Final Minutes. Makes you realize that the marvelous machines we have use cause the users of those devices to pay the ultimate price when there subsystems break-down. [Newsday.com]
Spirit’s memory Problems
Most of us have a few 128 meg flash memory chips laying around hell I have one that I keep inserted into my Sony notebook all the time. Imagine having 100’s of files stuck on 2 of these and having…
Opportunity on Mars all Systems Go!
The Opportunity Rover on Mars has been sending back new data the science team excitement about the landing site is hardly being contained. [Opportunity & Spirit News Conference Recaps]
Pictures from the Mars Opportunity Rover
What a night and what a picture. Above Image from NASA JPL Website All of the new images are now available here.