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.

 

 

 

 

8 Comments

 

  1. January 11, 2010  11:16 pm by BlackKingX Reply

    Aliens hackin' our satellites.

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  3. January 12, 2010  9:24 am by MarcusZ Reply

    Nice one!

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

  4. January 12, 2010  2:59 pm by rata0071 Reply

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

  6. January 12, 2010  3:48 pm by spacevidcast Reply

    @TrueDragofox Actually, 85Tb or 10.62TB

  7. January 13, 2010  1:50 pm by baldricksnosehairs Reply

    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

  8. January 14, 2010  12:06 pm by Ralph64 Reply

    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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