Opportunity Prepares To Move While Spirit Sits

Like any new arrival grabbing all the attention, NASA engineers were thrilled to watch, the Opportunity rover sent home its first color snapshot from Mars. However, engineers reported Monday that its ailing twin, Spirit, seemed to be suffering from a problem trying to manage too many files. Sounds like the ANN office.   Spirit has spent 23 Martian days, or "sols," on the red planet, the last five or so without much activity, while Opportunity has completed two and will spend a week or two moving cautiously through the steps required for it to stand up and roll off onto Mars' terra firma. The team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is increasingly convinced that Spirit's problem has a remedy, possibly related

Ramon's Personal Affects Returned To Family

Sections of a diary belonging to one of the seven astronauts killed last year when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas were found a few months ago and returned to his family, according to a published report. The Jerusalem Post reported that sections of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon's diary were found in a Texas field with other debris.The diary was submitted to the Israel Police for help in deciphering what was written, since the pages were written in Hebrew and some of the pages were full of holes, the newspaper reported. Johnson Space Center spokesman James Hartsfield confirmed on Friday that any personal items found among the debris were returned to the astronauts' families. Columbia broke