(Eric Chomko) wrote in
:

John Schutkeker ) wrote:

: Today on NPR's Science Friday, NASA's representative said that Spirit
: is nearly back to 100%, and that it will resume doing science and
: transmitting pictures this weekend. No word yet on the specifics of
: the problem that took her down for so long.


Yaaaaaaa ------ hoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn software people!

They're the ones who got us out of this jam. It turns out that it did have
something to do with the flash memory, although I still don't have any real
details yet. Maybe it was a computer hardware problem, and they had to
selectively work around some bad sections of flash.