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Apr. 24, 2009
Checking In With the Mars Rovers
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| Last Friday, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit suffered what team managers are calling a bout of temporary amnesia. Then, on Saturday, a computer onboard Spirit rebooted itself. The rover has had several other unexplained memory lapses and reboots, and the mission planners are searching for the cause. They're also hoping that changes to the rover's operating protocols might allow the rover to work around the bouts of amnesia, using different memory resources to keep operating reliably. We'll get an update on the mission, and talk about what else is new with the Mars rover program. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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John Callas
Project Manager, Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California
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