The Opportunity rover begins to forget after ten years of exploring the surface of Mars. THE μνήμη Opportunity's memory appears to have worn out with use, meaning the rover may forget data it has stored when it's turned off.
Opportunity began exploring the planet in 2004, and uses two types of memory. Scientists call them volatile and non-volatile. Non-volatile memory is something like a computer's hard drive and is used to store information that the rover will need to keep when the rover is shut down. mode of.
But the rover starts constantly losing data when it reboots unexpectedly. NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity manager John Callas compares it problem with one disease.
"The problems started quite mildly, but now they have become much more serious - it is very much like a disease, the symptoms were mild, but now with the progress of time things have become more serious," Callas told the Discovery News.
The problem grew, and by Christmas, Rover had ceased to communicate with the Earth. He failed to execute instructions given to him, although he had contact with his auditors.
NASA scientists believe they can handle the problem. It seems that one of the seven memory banks embedded in the rover is causing problems, and they hope that if they isolate the problem, Rover will continue to function normally with the other six.
But to do this, scientists will need to write a new software and then load it and install it in Opportunity. This is expected to happen in the next two weeks.
