After more than a decade of traversing the red planet, NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is facing some problems in its old age — namely, ones with memory. According to Discovery News , the rover has been going through bouts of "amnesia" thanks to failures in its flash memory storage.
"The Opportunity rover uses two different types of memory: "volatile" and "non-volatile," NASA project manager John Callas told Discovery News. The volatile memory is akin to a computer's RAM, so any data stored there is wiped every time the rover shuts down. The non-volatile memory is where the important data like telemetry — the measurements the rover is collecting — is stored so that it can be accessed whenever Opportunity is powered on. The problem with the...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/30/7470743/nasa-mars-opportunity-memory-loss
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