Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-04 Thread MexicoDoug
Thanks for the kind and informative answers in this and the other post, Ron ... At only 128 MB, that sounds surprisingly low ... it's pretty standard on a decent digital camera nowadays (and costs $100 or less, though I guess you have to keep it warm), that many dealers are sporting in Tucson.

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-04 Thread E. L. Jones
NASA doesn't want you to know that it may have gotten a viruse-mail or otherwise.(just kidding) MyDoom doesn't take long to fill up any in box anywhere! Actually, the memory, CPU and bus speeds are low, for amongst other things I suspect, because they opted for EMP hardened military

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-04 Thread Ron Baalke
Thanks for the kind and informative answers in this and the other post, Ron ... At only 128 MB, that sounds surprisingly low ... My mistake, the flash memory is 256MB. The rover has 128 MB of DRAM and 3 MB of EEPROM. it's pretty standard on a decent digital camera nowadays (and costs $100

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-03 Thread Ron Baalke
What type of operating system or machine language environment is being used? How many megabytes is the total flash memory's capacity? The operating system is VxWorks, a real-time Unix operating system. It was also used on the Sojourner rover. I've programmed on VxWorks before, and it is

[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-01 Thread Ron Baalke
Guy Webster (818) 354-5011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Donald Savage (202) 358-1547 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. News Release: 2004-048 February 1, 2004 Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is healthy again,

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-01 Thread Howard Wu
"Each martian day, or "sol" lasts about 40 minutes longer thanan Earth day. Spirit begins its 30th sol on Mars at 12:44a.m. Monday, Pacific Standard Time. Opportunity begins its10th sol on Mars at 1:05 p.m. Monday, PST. The two roversare halfway around Mars from each other." If I could get an

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-01 Thread MexicoDoug
In a message dated 2/1/2004 11:47:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many of the deleted files were left over from the seven-month flight from Florida to Mars. "...seven-month flight from Florida..." That really has a cozy sound to it! Things haven't changed much since Intro

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health

2004-02-01 Thread David Freeman
Dear Doug; I know the answers to all of your questions but if I told you, I'd have to kill you. My tax dollars too bud, Dave F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/1/2004 11:47:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many of the deleted files were left over from the