Curiosity Rover’s scientists recently said that the study suggesting that ancient Mars once hosted microbial life was wrong. They also said that the evidence proposed by the study’s author was not “quite as strong” as what was described in the published paper. In December, Nora Noffke, a geobiology researcher at the Old Dominion University in Virginia, published a paper in the journal … [Read more...]
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Suffers from Short-Term Memory Loss
NASA reported that Mars Opportunity rover has encountered some technical problems that make it difficult for the robotic explorer to save new data on its flash memory. Technicians were able to reprogram the machine to store further data on its RAM thus leading to memory loss when the rover enters hibernate mode. NASA’s Opportunity rover was designed to explore Mars for only three months, but it … [Read more...]
