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Hi, this is Jeff Fabretto and it’s the Flight Director report for October 15th 2004. Both vehicles are healthy and doing well. Today I’d like to continue my discussion about MER-B, or Opportunity, and what we’re doing with this rock that we’ve been trying to approach. So it seems like we successfully approached it and we got just close enough that we got good reachability with our robotic arm and we were able to go out there and take a look and touch different places with the robotic arm and use our Microscopic Imager to take very detailed images of specifics of this rock.

MER-A, or Spirit, it’s having a little bit of problems driving. We have a dynamic braking problem on that vehicle. We’re still diagnosing the problem and we’ll talk about that maybe in later reports, but for now it’s still healthy and still doing science, so we’ll see what we get with that today.

And that’s the Flight Director report for October 15th 2004.