Spirit Rover Makes Night Sky Observations


	Spirit Rover Makes Night Sky Observations

Kelika

6-29-2009 10:34 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/66a85e1c-50f2-4b84-bb23-aeacb3067855/84465596-2F06-4DD0-9DAD-CB650A119C60/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/4D52EEE8-A8C9-40C5-9C62-C81089927480" alt="Spirit's night observations from sol 1943.  The bright streak is the star Canopus. Credit: NASA/JPL" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/27/spirit-rover-begins-making-night-sky-observations/">When your rover has abundant energy but can't go anywhere, what's a scientist to do?  How about making observations of the evening and night skies on <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/mars/" linkindex="15">Mars</A>? With the benefit of a boost in electrical power from a wind gust cleaning off her solar panels, the Spirit rover has more energy available than she's had for a couple of years.  But unfortunately, Spirit is stuck in a patch of loose soil in the Home Plate region on Mars.  While the engineers at JPL work hard at figuring out how to "Free Spirit" (<A href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/freespirit/" linkindex="16">see the new website dedicated to their efforts</A>) scientists are making observations of her surroundings to aid in the effort to get her out. But there's also enough power to do additional observations, and <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/astronomy/" linkindex="17">astronomy</A> was a logical choice.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/84465596-2F06-4DD0-9DAD-CB650A119C60/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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