The spacecraft and rover are both in good health today and successfully completed their activities. We did not resolve the signal strength problem from yesterday's downlink in which the spacecraft signal strength was not as high as expected during the final minutes of the transmission session. In fact, the same problem was observed today. We will continue to investigate the cause of this problem. Fortunately, today we received nearly all of the expected data despite this problem. This included about six megabits of science data consisting primarily of super resolution images.

The Earth rose this morning on Mars at 2:45 p.m. and the Sun rose at 5:15 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Today the rover team made some necessary changes to the rover's on-board contingency sequence. In addition, Sojourner continued to take APXS measurements on the rock "Chimp".

Earth set on Mars at 3:30 a.m. and the Sun will set 5:15 a.m. PDT on September 24th. The spacecraft will sleep for nearly 16 hours tonight and will wake up tomorrow morning around 3:00 p.m. PST . We should receive data from the deep space network tomorrow starting around 10:00 p.m. PDT.

Tomorrow's planned activities are for the rover to start off towards Mermaid Dune and for the lander to continue with its super resolution imaging . We also plan to continue to take ASI/MET weather data.

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