MER1 "serious anomaly"

JPL just reported that MER1 has a "serious anomaly." It hasn't communicated
properly since yesterday morning. An MGS pass last night PST got some signal
from the UHF, but the data was random 1's nad 0's. Just at the very end of
the press briefing they reported tentatively that the DSN had picked up a
status signal from the rover that it was in "fault" mode. If true, it's good
that it isn't totally kaput, but doesn't sound good.

Joe Knapp (or somebody else of the same name) wrote in message
om thusly:

JPL just reported that MER1 has a "serious anomaly." It hasn't
communicated properly since yesterday morning. An MGS pass last night PST
got some signal from the UHF, but the data was random 1's nad 0's. Just at
the very end of the press briefing they reported tentatively that the DSN
had picked up a status signal from the rover that it was in "fault" mode.
If true, it's good that it isn't totally kaput, but doesn't sound good.

MER1 has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down

--
Paul Townsend
I put it down there, and when I went back to it, there it was GONE!

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