Reply #46: Hope! Here is some info :

[frogfromthenorth2]

At the end of the press conference this was said:

This morning, flight controllers sent a low-data-rate signal to Spirit on the assumption the computer believed it had run into a problem and had loaded fault-protection routines. What may have been a brief response was received. If that data turn out to be valid, it would indicate Spirit is still alive, giving engineers hope they might be able to recover from whatever has gone wrong.

"That would tell us the spacecraft thinks it's on the fault side of the tree somehow, for some reason, that would mean we have positive power, some element of the software is working. ... But, you know, we need to confirm that. So don't take that further than it deserves to go right now."