Hi, this is Jeff Fabretto and this is the Flight Director report for the Mars Exploration Rovers on July 21st 2004.

Yesterday on MER-A, we were at sol 195 and there was a large rock in front of us named ‘Sabre’ so we decided to reach out and RAT that rock to grind in that rock a bit. We were in the process of changing over to our APXS instrument on that robotic arm and we had a timeout unfortunately so we’re correcting for that today.

Opportunity is also in good health, it’s sol 175 and if you look behind me here you can see it’s only 11:34 in the morning, so that sol is still progressing as we speak and the rover just woke up. We just received its nominal beep, that tells us it’s awake and it’s healthy. Today it’s going to move back, it’s gonna stow its arm. It has a robotic arm and it’s taking some micro images. It’s gonna drive back and it’s gonna image this rock called ‘Arnold Ziffel’ and for those of you who don’t know who Arnold Ziffel was, that of course was the famed pig from “Green Acres”. Then we’re gonna drive forward into a nice slab of bedrock and we’ll stop there and do some more scientific observations.

And that’s the Flight Director report for July 21st 2004.