Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg a Lily Mars a partial Panorama of the Martian horizon As seen from Pathfinder shows the red planets the Rover can be seen doming off ramp at far a fire Hose of data squirts to Earth to Al so by Robert Boyd Knish Wridder newspapers Pathfinder Mission is saturating scientists with so much information about Mars that they cant keep up with what one of them called a fire Hose of analysis and interpretation Are lagging As the american Lander and Rover continue to function perfectly in the harsh environment of the red but the scientists dont mind a we have 70 scientists Here like kids in a Candy grinning from ear to Matt pathfinders chief said yes the Little computer aboard the Ian Der is squirting digital data 120 lion Miles to nasal Jet propulsion Laboratory jul Here at the rate of bits per second five tittles faster than More than 200 megabytes of data have been received since the july 4 Landing enough to fill 140 floppy disks on a Home that the largest volume of data that has Ever been received from a said Brian the Deputy project As a result of the information Public release of the so called Mon Ster a three Dimen High Resolution Panorama of the Martian horizon from the Landing a Candy grinning from ear to has been delayed until Tomor the data have been received at but there Hast been time to process it and fit scores of postage Stee images together into a coherent the roving spent tuesday night studying the chemistry of a second known As located about six feet from barnacle its first data from Yogi and the soil around its base will be received at that the Rover will continue its wanderings toward three whitish rocks that scientists have named Scobie Doo and Flat any White Rock is of tremendous Golombek because it implies that its material was repeat edly cooled and to form a quart like its an easy place for Rover to drive he More Distant objects that intrigue the scientists include two Low Hills known As twin half a mile away a meteor Crater several Miles off and a faint Peak 20 Miles in the barely visible Over the lip of the All of these to the scientists Are too far for the with a top Speed of two feet per to but Pathfinder will study them with its stereoscopic cameras and 12colour before the fall dust Montreal firm helping out on Mars Canadian press Montreal data radio a Montreal High tech is taking credit for Clear communications on the red planet Between the sojourner Rover and the Mars the two Way link is provided by radio modems designed and distributed by a firm with about 50 employees in Montreal and another 15 to 20 in were very pleased at the Way the Mission has gone so data radio marketing Man Ager Allen Mendelsohn certainly our devices Are working very in an interview Mendelsohn said Nasa did an extensive study to find approx commercially modems that they could use for this the Rover and the Lan Der both have one Send and receive data at up to 9600 bits a they Are built by Motorola paging products the link sends commands from the Lander to the after they have been relayed from Earth on a separate microwave connect rovers Modem sends both images from its cameras and data from its instruments to the for relay Back to for the Mars Pathfinder the radio modems casings and connectors were Given minor to ensure they could stand up to space travels harsh Condi Mendelsohn said the 18yearold firm Basi Cally founded the principles of sending data by Canadian red Cross Manitoba flood Appeal what is the red Cross doing with your donations dear donors As you read this your generous continues to make a difference in the because of disastrous Spring but your support donations to red Cross Are used to disaster response and in red Cross provided a this system provided Fanti loved during the volunteers and staff reunited som As Manitoba flood Appeal suffering serious hardship lives were changed Ding through two functions hereabouts and Well being of r 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