Mars Rover Losing Its Memory

11/05/09 by Kyle

KEYWORDS: Space, Science, Tech

The Mars Exploration Rover known as Spirit has been experiencing some memory problems since October 24. Spirit usually records its day's activities onto flash memory and then takes a break. This break is similar to sleep and the robot can usually retain its flash memory when it wakes up. However, it has been losing this memory recently. Surprisingly, Spirit is in pretty good health otherwise. The Rover has been stuck in a patch of soft, Martian soil since April but has still collected data for NASA.

What do you think will happen to Spirit?

BY supershadow94 AT 2:32 PM ON 11/14/2009

that's kinda freaky, but i don't think anything is really gonna happen, NASA will probably lose a few records about what it's doing right now, but that's all.

BY stormy20 AT 7:30 PM ON 11/12/2009

An Ailien Touched It!! =D

(SPellingggg)

-StoRmY

BY 4Kid902 AT 4:59 PM ON 11/10/2009

I doubt anything will happen to Spirit. It is probably a glitch that will fix itself in a few weeks.

BY theheroevian AT 7:14 AM ON 11/10/2009

this is very weird

BY kaijudomasterpaw AT 10:09 AM ON 11/08/2009

hmm

BY TheBatGirl AT 12:53 PM ON 11/07/2009

like Agrotera said, more then likely there's dirt inside of it. and in response to Ibsonic, i highly doubt that it will explode, if anything it will proly eventually die and sit on mars until humans reach it.