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January 5, 2004

Link to Martian Rover Is Strong, and 3-D Images Flow to Earth

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New York Times:

"It was a good day on Mars," Matt Wallace, the manager of the robotic rover mission, said after the distant Sun set on Spirit's landing site in Gusev Crater, near the Martian equator.

Mr. Wallace said the rover's main antenna was successfully pointed toward Earth for the transmission of pictures and data from Mars at a high-speed rate and for sending commands and software changes from the control center here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Most radio signals to and from Spirit had be relayed through two spacecraft orbiting Mars.

The mission's chief scientist, Dr. Steven W. Squyres of Cornell, said that tests of most of the rover's science instruments had been completed and that all appeared to have survived unscathed the vibrations of the braking rockets and the bouncing, rolling touchdown when Spirit arrived on Mars late Saturday. He said that German scientists were particularly relieved that one of their spectrometers for analyzing Martian rocks, which had exhibited erratic behavior earlier in the mission, was in excellent condition.

In the first stereo panoramic pictures, scientists got a three-dimensional look at the many rocks, craters and distant hills of the landing site.

3-D.mars.images.jpg This reporter getting a glimpse of Mars looks like a cross between Robin Williams and Bono.