"Brian Thorn" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:11:17 GMT, John Schutkeker
wrote:

Isn't it terrible luck that, with the Spirit Rover starting to explore
Mars, it has to compete against the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire
primary for news coverage? For all I know, JPL is making huge strides
forward, and I'm missing the whole thing, because all the headlines are
about Dean, Gephardt, Kerry and Edwards. I'm as big a fan of
presidential
politics as the next guy, but the search for life on Mars is a trillion
times more interesting. Why can't journalists get their priorities
straight?

There hasn't been any news this weekend at all, near as I can tell.
Spaceflight Now's latest update is still from Friday.

One reason is that Spirit is sitting still and doing the same thing all
weekend (taking measurements with the two spectrometers).
NASA isn't giving any press conferences until Monday when
they are expected to give some preliminary results from the
spectrometers and to tell where they plan to move to next.
Once the rover starts moving, I suspect it will once again catch
the attention of the press.