NASA to hack Opportunity to fix memory issue ⇢

The BBC:

Mars rover Opportunity, which has been exploring the Red Planet for more than 10 years, is suffering from memory problems, Nasa has said.

The six-wheeled vehicle - not to be confused with Curiosity, which launched in 2011 - keeps resetting unexpectedly.

The Opportunity team thinks an age-related fault affecting the flash memory used by the robot is to blame.

It believes it has found a way to hack the rover’s software to disregard the faulty part.

It’s amazing that Opportunity is still working at all. [Its sibling, Spirit]((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(rover)) sent its last communication to Earth in 2010, which was far longer than NASA’s original plans. Hopefully this fix can keep Opportunity rolling a bit longer.