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On Mars, Spirit has died

One of the two Mars rovers NASA, for six years, supplying valuable information about the earthlings the Red Planet, has found its end in Martian sand. Specialists of the National Space Agency acknowledged that the automatic interplanetary station MER- 2, which received its own name Spirit, plunged into sleep, and hope it 'll find you no more, reports.

The project manager John Callas said that recent rover team will be sent on Wednesday, May 25. Although the spacecraft will take the signals to the end of the month, chances are that he will respond after all, are negligible. «Spirit sank into a deep sleep,...

In turn, the representative of the headquarters of NASA, David Laver assured that when the team who worked on the project, gather together this summer, they will arrange for the lost rover real wake. ... - We and had no idea that that's because it's over ...

Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been lowered by parachute in different parts of the Martian southern hemisphere in January 2004. Guaranteed Resource apparatus was designed for three months of continuous operation, but the study was delayed for years. The movement of robots on the Martian plain watched thousands of people on Earth.

In contrast, Opportunity, from the very start is given high rates of research, Spirit plagued with failures. Shortly after landing on the surface of the Red Planet in hardware rover has a problem, because of what he sent to Earth incoherent data. NASA engineers nursed him like a baby, trying to get him out of critical condition.

However, despite a difficult start, the Spirit showed further high grade. Landing in Gusev Crater opened his only chance - to move to the mountain ranges, making discoveries along the way. In 2005,. rover recorded the process of forming a ... In addition, at the bottom of Gusev Crater, he found evidence that Mars once had water.

In 2006,. one of the front wheels of the apparatus has stopped, forcing the rover to move backwards, markedly ... In addition, Spirit began to suffer bouts of amnesia, unable to write data to the memory block. However, the unit survived three Martian winters, before the real trouble began.

The trouble occurred in April of 2009, when the Spirit, moving in reverse, the wheels broke through the hard ground, and stuck in the sand. Attempts to escape from the trap led to the rejection of another wheel. After that, NASA management decided to retrain in a stationary rover scientific station.

However, at this misfortune befell the Spirit, not the end. Engineers failed to turn solar cells device at an angle so he could eat from the hanging low over the horizon of the winter sun. Lack of energy led to the shutdown of heating elements. Soon, the temperature dropped below -55 rover, after which he fell into the hardware to whom.

In March, 2011. , With the advent of the new Martian summer, the engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, hoping that Spirit will wake up and will give signs of life, but the robot has not filed a single signal is not. NASA experts have tried various methods to ... ... Or, conversely, ...

Since landing on Mars Spirit overcame the nearly 8 kilometers. Opportunity for this time was a record 30 kilometers. The collected information apparatus largely turned people's perceptions of the Red Planet.

Scientists working on the project, argued that the unit will be remembered for his Spirit fighting spirit and tell stories about it to their children. ...

Well, Opportunity is now continuing its trek toward Endeavour Crater. In the autumn of this year, it joins another NASA's next generation.








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