Free Spirit : Rescuing a Rover Part 2

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    • EAA859

      EAA859: Will the Martian Winter harden the soil.

      11 days ago · Comment
    • flubbermcdrool

      flubbermcdrool: Hand the controls to angry white redneck whose boyfriend just cheated on her and put her in a video simulator where she can run over her virtual boyfriend.

      19 days ago · Comment
    • SheeUn

      SheeUn: They will never free Spirit...

      117 days ago · Comment
    • MorkfromOrk

      MorkfromOrk: I am a little dishearten that this is the same rover and same rover team that was stuck before and really still in the same area from before. As soon as the rover started to get bogged down why was it instructed to go further without checking out the...

      156 days ago · Comment
    • world101

      world101: let the wheels make littleplatforms by moving the wheels left then forward then to the right then forward, then left and move forward and so on

      201 days ago · Comment
    • world101

      world101: do all wheels move indidvually? and do the wheels rotate all 360 deg?

      201 days ago · Comment
    • bbelanger

      bbelanger: could you scrape the soil out of the treads with the arm?

      201 days ago · Comment
    • world101

      world101: have you tried to spiral the wheels out of the dirt? also i would like NASA to set up a game online like the ones on http://www.physicsgames.net/ ... this way we can get our hands on how controlling the rover and maybe by shear luck i can find out how to rock the wheels out. let us play with the rover. i have more ideas. cant wait to see this live.

      201 days ago · Comment
    • Anthrage

      Anthrage: Great job both of you, wonderful talk tonight!

      201 days ago · Comment
    • hendric

      hendric: Thank you NASA for doing this. I know many of the questions have been asked repeatedly, but I still think this is great E/PO. More more!

      201 days ago · Comment

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    July 23, 2009
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    Ustream chat from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on efforts to rescue the Spirit rover, which is stuck in loose soil on Mars. We chat with with the Mars Rover Driver Ashley Stroupe (see the chat with rover project manager John Callas is part 1).
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