Sunday, 4. January 2004
Topic: - on January 4, 2004 at 11:37:00 AM CET
NASA rover sends snapshots from Mars
The first of NASA's two Mars rovers landed safely on an open stretch within Gusev Crater on Saturday night and sent back screenfuls of black-and-white images, marking a successful start to NASA's first ground-level exploration of the Red Planet in more than six years.
Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., whooped, clapped and hugged each other shortly before 9 p.m. PT (midnight ET) when they heard that a carrier tone was received from the Spirit rover. That signal, relayed by NASA's orbiting Mars Global Surveyor, confirmed that the spacecraft had landed intact and right side up.
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