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Subject: Re: NASA's "Spirit"

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Blobrana

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Date Posted: 01:45:58 01/27/04 Tue
In reply to: Blobrana 's message, "Re: NASA's "Spirit"" on 01:14:50 01/23/04 Fri

Mission controllers have started loading a "script" on the rover designed to locate the root cause of the problem. The problem involved file management" problems with the two types of memory used by Spirit: (Ram and flash). It seems as if hundreds of computer files that have accumulated on the Mars rover Spirit may be the cause of problems that have crippled it. <br>
Basically the space required in the rover's Ram memory to manage the data files stored in its flash memory ran out due to the build-up of files. So all they have to do is to delete them...

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