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November 15, 2003 It's mid-November, and time for another ORT. These Operations Readiness Tests are intense, and they seem to be getting more so. As I write this it's 2:00 AM at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and 2:30 AM (in our simulation) at Gusev Crater. The rover is asleep right now, and we're in the process of getting the commands ready to make it do its thing when the sun comes up on Mars (again, in our simulation) tomorrow morning. Today's main activities should be a checkout of the RAT followed by a short drive to a rock that the science team has, for some reason, nicknamed "Fromage".
Meanwhile, out in space... we just completed a final checkout of all the cameras on Spirit, and they all look great. The next time we'll turn them on, they'll be in Gusev Crater. For real.
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