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Waking Up Again, Procedure to locate Earth upon reawakening
TomT
post Jul 24 2007, 07:27 PM
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If the rovers 'fall asleep' due to underpowered batteries and some time later there are enough amps to
reawaken them, how do they go about finding Earth and re-establishing communication once the clock has
restarted?
Think cosmic,
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djellison
post Jul 24 2007, 09:12 PM
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Yeah - err - the one I was reading was on the JPL technical reports server smile.gif

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- TomT   Waking Up Again   Jul 24 2007, 07:27 PM
- - Stu   To answer your question... absolutely no idea. B...   Jul 24 2007, 07:36 PM
- - akuo   There is not really need. The low gain antenna is ...   Jul 24 2007, 08:00 PM
- - TomT   Ah, of course, elegant answer! Thanks   Jul 24 2007, 08:35 PM
- - djellison   05-2866.pdf (google) is a document by Tracy Neilso...   Jul 24 2007, 08:41 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 24 2007, 10:41 PM)...   Jul 24 2007, 09:03 PM
- - Tom Tamlyn   To pursue TomT's question (oddly enough, I was...   Jul 24 2007, 09:00 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jul 24 2007, 11:00 PM...   Jul 24 2007, 09:07 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jul 24 2007, 10:00 PM...   Jul 24 2007, 09:13 PM
|- - Edward Schmitz   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jul 24 2007, 02:00 PM...   Jul 25 2007, 04:09 PM
- - djellison   Yeah - err - the one I was reading was on the JPL ...   Jul 24 2007, 09:12 PM
- - fredk   Right, and when tau gets so high that the required...   Jul 24 2007, 10:15 PM
- - akuo   Don't know, but I'd imagine they'd fig...   Jul 24 2007, 10:52 PM
- - helvick   Assuming that the Pancam's can support a dynam...   Jul 24 2007, 10:59 PM
|- - fredk   QUOTE (helvick @ Jul 24 2007, 10:59 PM) F...   Jul 25 2007, 01:00 AM
- - Tom Tamlyn   I thought I had read in one of the recent reports ...   Jul 25 2007, 01:39 AM
|- - Mark Adler   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Jul 24 2007, 06:39 PM...   Jul 25 2007, 02:25 AM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (Mark Adler @ Jul 24 2007, 10:25 PM...   Jul 25 2007, 07:52 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Jul 24 2007, 11:52 PM) ....   Jul 25 2007, 05:29 PM
|- - Stephen   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jul 26 2007, 03:29 A...   Jul 26 2007, 05:05 AM
|- - Jeff7   QUOTE (Stephen @ Jul 26 2007, 01:05 AM) L...   Jul 28 2007, 01:58 AM
|- - fredk   QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Jul 28 2007, 01:58 AM) I s...   Jul 28 2007, 03:44 PM
- - fredk   You may be thinking of the quote in here. The hig...   Jul 25 2007, 02:06 AM
- - djellison   http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/2014/386...   Jul 25 2007, 07:20 AM
- - edstrick   " so you may end up knocking out all the blue...   Jul 25 2007, 08:27 AM
- - prometheus   "Note that solar cells are able to use a LOT ...   Jul 25 2007, 02:33 PM
- - lyford   And the rain of ashes covering our cars afterwards...   Jul 25 2007, 05:49 PM
- - edstrick   "...As they are current sources, the weakest ...   Jul 26 2007, 05:54 AM
- - brellis   QUOTE I suppose Opportunity might be able to make ...   Jul 28 2007, 06:20 AM
- - djellison   The only direction they're going to exit is ba...   Jul 28 2007, 08:06 AM
- - Tom Tamlyn   A belated thank you to Fredk and Mark Adler for pr...   Aug 4 2007, 01:38 AM


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