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Any applicable taxes are the responsibility of the account holder. Limit one gift card incentive per new account opened. Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC ©2004 Bank of America Corporation CECTA10 8A Monday, January 26, 2004 THE BATTALIil Bright stuff ■tM, bu I With i thfc secret Brel Ant: ft, hopp< th; banki jS-l-O Bij I Hmme |t the tn 1 can ■ad con liinett ply get I | Afters tissed ftrales t ft. all Ri der he iaEmme I But e\ Art Wright • THE BATM Te islet dit Clay Bright receives a standing ovation from 1 2th Man Foundation members prior to speaking on behalf o(“ftimett S father, Bum Bright, Class of 1943, at the dedication ceremony for the Bright Football Complex The complexfttdy) SI named for the Bright family, who provided the initial $5 million donation for the $27 million project. law a li I Emmt NASA Continued from page 1A designed it to withstand as much as 40 G’s, said Chris Jones, director of flight proj ects at JPL. The six-wheeled rover land ed at 12:05 a.m. EST in Meridiani Planum, believed to be the smoothest, flattest spot on Mars. Opportunity lies 6,600 miles and halfway around the planet from where its twin. Spirit, landed Jan. 3. On Sunday, NASA said Opportunity was in excellent health and Spirit was on the mend after a serious software problems had hobbled it. Initial analysis of the images suggested Opportunity landed in a shallow crater roughly 66 feet across. Its low rim should n’t block the rolling robot once it gets going, Squyres said. Opportunity could roll off its lander in 10 to 14 days, mission manager Arthur Amador said. Opportunity’s possible targets include a larger crater, maybe 500 feet across, that lies an esti mated half-mile from where the spacecraft landed. The rover’s ramp off its lan der appeared unobstructed, unlike that of the Spirit rover, said Matt Wallace, another of the mission managers. Spirit had to use an alternate ramp because a deflated air bag blocked its safest route to the martian surface. Together, the twin 384- pound rovers make up a $820 million mission to seek out geo logic evidence that Mars was once a wetter world possibly capable of sustaining life. NASA launched Spirit on June 10 and Opportunity on July 7. Each carries nine cameras and six scientific instruments. On Wednesday, Spirit devel oped serious problems, cutting off what had been a steady flow of pictures and scientific data. It resumed delivering data Friday, but on a limited basis. Engineers now believe the problem arose with software that manages the file system within the rover’s flash memo ry, project manager Pete Theisinger said. Other possible culprits include broken hard ware or solar radiation. “Spirit is still serious but we are moving to guarded con dition.’’ Theisinger said, adding that Spirit could resume normal operations in two to three weeks. Hours after Opportunity’s landing, NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe broke open a bottle of champagne and toast ed the mission. “As the old saying goes. bk J the ■im sho (h< front I Watki; [shmar bk keted op ion w H "They in oLeai Both it’s far better to be luckyikfr' " 1 good, but you know, the hJ 1,1 er we work the luckier ft 0 ^ un seem to get.” O’Keefe adding “no one dared hopift 011 ^ 6 that both rover landings' be so successful. NASA sent Spirit to Gik Crater, a broad depress believed to once havecontan a lake. Opportunity was si Meridiani Planum, which! lists believe abounds inamue! al called gray hematite. The iron-rich mineral lyL cally forms in marine onft me ’ 1)1 canic environments ma^ke<i'ft ,l, * ,lin hydrothermal activift * lacl Hematite is common in tlx ,or 1 soil found .k loss the soulheiftM 1 l llv em United States and is fB m quently used as a pigmeni.sft Alter Doug Ming, of NASlft nTle( l< Johnson Space Center left member of the science team ftugh tl NASA launched two to' ^ Aggie to double its chances of siftints by cessfully landing on Mars.MThe s carry identical plaques menwftery tin alizing the seven astroiwft other who died aboard space shu t* n gair Columbia nearly a year aft With Opportunity mission manaftin com Jim Erickson said. ftows fi As of early Sunday, llifftw ans' were a record five spacecift operating on or around Mij including two NASA said lites and one from ill European Space Ageift orbiting the planet. Step Continued from page 1A One of the dance team members taught the basics of stepping to audience members who were invited on stage to show off their newly- learned moves. The last presentation of the evening entertain ment was the hip hop freestyle contest. After a lit tle coaxing from the contest host, volunteers from the audience appeared on stage and the first place winner received a prize of $100. “It was great to see a variety of talent in one show,” said Christina Joykutty, a junior mathemat ics major. The conference also included keynote speal talking on topics of diversity. Poet Nikki Giovanni spoke at Rudder Th« Saturday night on topics ranging from whybli can relate to uncertainties of space exploratiom j exai mistrusting President George W. 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