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| 8:20 a.m. The landers have just been dropped. Unfortunately...our lander didn't land up upright. However, the egg didn't crack, so we hope that no fatal damage will be dealt to our rover. We can only do the best we can to work with what we have. 8:50 a.m. Turns out the only problem we had was that our camera was turned lopsided. Fortunately, we were able to face this problem, and we're still running well. We just gave the first tour, and things are looking nicely so far. :) |
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| 9:30 a.m. Rover Team is confident they may have found some fossils or the like. They've also found scoria rocks despite our camera penalty. The group of the second tour we gave was a bit disrespectful, so we asked their teacher to help. Rover is now looking at their reading that they collected, hopefully soon to be posted on the website. 10:00 a.m. More fossils found by the Rover, and we also have enough of a soil sample to begin analyzing the martian dirt. More tours have come in to watch us at work, and a certain interest has been sparked among the students. |
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| 11:11 a.m.....We've discovered that the "Martian Gods" have decided to switch our motors around, so some of them are going the opposite direction of what they once were. But we are adapting and have already found a solution. 12:51 p.m. Alright. So our motors were switched AGAIN. But it's alright because our rover people are very savvy in the programming and are adapting to it very nicely. We've found more fossils, and think we've found olivine in a soil sample, as well as the microbial spyrogyra. 3:00 p.m. We've had some problems due to our lopsided landing, but we still have been pressing through. Cygnus is practically done, just need to wrap up with reports and pictures. |
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