Wed, Jun 02, 2004
Aero-News: Quote of the Day
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Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we
reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing
on the day's events and issues.
Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the
content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be
thought-provoking.
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become future Quotes of the Day.
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Aero-News Quote of the Day
"Opportunity successfully executed
our second deep sleep of the mission. We survived the night just
fine with that and it saved the energy that we expected to. More
importantly our Mini-TES instrument, which we put in danger by the
deep sleep operation, did survive the night and we hope it will
survive more of these. But we're getting dangerously close to the
cold temperatures that it isn't able to survive
through."
Source: Mars Rover Flight Director Chris
Lewicki in JPL's recorded update, after Opportunity apparently
cheated death again last week. The rover's heat circuit, activated
at night to preserve temperature-sensitive equipment, failed to
turn itself off during the Martian days, severely draining the
rover's solar-fed batteries. The solution: put Opportunity into a
deep sleep to conserve energy. Both Opportunity and its twin,
Spirit, have completed their assigned missions, so every day that
the probes continue to operate is manna from heaven (or Mars).
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