Ian Stirling wrote in
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JimO wrote:
Problems -- give 'em a day or two to work them out...

The most important thing is that they don't become disspirited.


Assuming Spirit is dead: (I dont think so, but for speculation sake)

What are the implications for Opportunity? Im thinking specifically of team
resources available during the approach/landing/deploy phase of Opportunity
next week.

Roughly what percentage of the science mission has been achieved sofar? The
rover has been on Mars for 1/5 of its planned lifecycle, but a lot of that
was systems checkouts.

Do we have any ideas floating around as to what could have caused the
problem? I know there was interference problems during command upload, but
the rover should reject any garbage commands. Besides a purely software
jumble should have reset by now, right? What hardware issues could give the
symptoms we are experiencing now?