NASA working to fix Opportunity's memory

NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars in 2004 and its 90-day mission has now lasted almost 11 years. Unfortunately, its age is beginning to show with the unmanned robotic explorer beginning to display signs of memory loss. Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that Opportunity's computers have been resetting as its flash memory banks suffer fits of "amnesia," which engineers back on Earth are trying to repair... Continue Reading NASA working to fix Opportunity's memory



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Tags: Flash memory, Mars, Memory, NASA, Opportunity



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