The Ramble

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home

The 2nd of the golf-cart sized mars rovers has safely landed on the surface of Mars. Considering that the sequence of events that happens after seperation from the main space craft is completely automated, and requires no input from the ground, I would say that this is truly an engineering marvel. I'm captivated by the events of the landing of these rovers. Exploration is one thing that we humans have always loved, (for better or for worse) and these rovers are evidence of that.

It looks like that the stupid 256 megs flash-ram on spirit is faulty, and that's why the computer keeps rebooting itself. JPL has sent commands to it telling the rover to work off the RAM instead. Leave it to NASA to build in 30 layers of redunancy in their systems.