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NASA: Mars Rover Has Amnesia

NASA: Mars Rover Has Amnesia (SPACE.com)
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SPACE.com - Humans aren't the only forgetful ones. The Mars Rover Spirit "had a bout of temporary amnesia" on Friday, NASA officials said today.
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Well they say that a computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it.

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If that's the case, then the rovers were programmed by geniuses.
I was just reading an article the other day about the Mars Rovers. They were designed and expected to last something like 6 months once they were on the surface and it's been more than 5 years (I think) and they are still going strong in spite of some problems. One of them has a transmission problem so it only goes in reverse. The other one is in an area where there is less wind so more dust has collected on the solar cells which limits how much movement it can perform in a given day but they are both still gathering data and running tests after all this time.
I think it's an amazing feat of both the original design work that was done and also on the part of the people that continue to come up with fixes for things as problems come up.