Communications with Mars restored – MRO back online!

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Posted on: January 12, 2010

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Communications with Mars restored – MRO back online!

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was offline for a good chunk of 2009, but as of mid December NASA was able to bring the Mars orbiting satellite back online.

  1. BlackKingX says:
    January 11, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    Aliens hackin’ our satellites.

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  2. Communications with Mars restored – MRO back online … | planets says:
    January 12, 2010 at 9:08 am

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  3. MarcusZ says:
    January 12, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Nice one!

    I really laughed out loud about the “Last Known Good Configuration (advanced, VAXHeadroom only)” Easter Egg :D

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  4. rata0071 says:
    January 12, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    sometimes i don’t know if this coments are jokes or you mean it xD

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  5. TrueDragofox says:
    January 12, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    89.3 TB!!! DAMN

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  6. spacevidcast says:
    January 12, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    @TrueDragofox Actually, 85Tb or 10.62TB

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  7. baldricksnosehairs says:
    January 13, 2010 at 1:50 pm

    wonder what ‘they’ were doing for the week on mars that they ‘blinded’ our instruments, mmmm lol look out for strange green gaseous jets and the cylinders that will surely follow muahahaha
    Dum Dum Dum Dum ,Dum dum
    Dum Dum Dum Dum, Dum Dum…….
    only jk

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  8. Ralph64 says:
    January 14, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    It is the Great Galactic Ghoul.

    From Wikipedia:
    “The “Galactic Ghoul” is a fictional space monster that consumes Mars probes, a term coined in 1997 by Time Magazine journalist Donald Neff.”

    Or IS it fictional??

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