On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:26:34 GMT, (Gary W.
Swearingen) wrote, in part:

I heard a guy on "The Newshour" say that RESET was an option that they
have no plans to use any time soon. They'll work with what they got
until they determine that won't be good enough. The next step is to
ask the rover to send back some diagnostic info over the low gain
antenna at the "safe mode" bit rate of about 8 bits per second. About
3 AM PST, IIRC.

This, of course, makes sense; they want to play things safe, and
ensure they aren't making things worse instead of better. (Although,
if there is no way to know just what the rover's program currently is,
and what it is doing, things could be getting worse; could a slip of
its robotic arm have led to it grinding itself open?)

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html