Hi, this is Jeff Fabretto with the Mars Exploration Rover Flight Director report for August 4th 2004.

Both spacecraft are in healthy good conditions. There’s some exciting things coming on. We’re leaving the crater on MER-B and just kind of exciting, that’s Opportunity. We’re just kind of driving out of that. There’s science targets that we will be looking at along the way.

But the more exciting is MER-A, you’ll see behind me this is an outcrop that we’re trying to get to and we’re coming up at a rather steep approach to this. We’re at about 25 degrees tilt right now. So the interesting thing here is to see if we can get up close enough to this outcrop. Remember, we’re climbing up the hills and if get close enough so that we can put out our IDD and then we can go ahead and take a look at this outcrop. Right now it’s only 1:17 on Mars for MER-A or Spirit and we won’t know until a few hours from now if our approach yesterday worked. If it did we’ll be in a good position to do some science for a few sols. And we’ll take it again like we always do one day at a time.

That’s the Flight Director report for August 4th 2004.