A spurious signal was apparently seen today from Mars Pathfinder, However when a second larger Deep Space Network antenna was brought on point, the signal was not observed. Tomorrow, we are hoping to see a 40 minute carrier-only signal from the spacecraft. The frequency range of the downlink sweep was increased to help better detect the signal from the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft.

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