Opportunity rover being reformatted

[MartG]

NASA engineers think the reason Opportunity's computer has been rebooting recently is due to duff flash memory - so they are going to reformat it. Fingers crossed !

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/189081-the-ulti...

[Halmyre]

Great, NASA are recruiting technicians from PC World.

How do they know some alien lizard didn't whack it with a fossilised thighbone?

[XJSJohn]

new record for the longest distance unattended install ever!!!

[Gandahar]

Presumably when it reformats it can be told to mark the bad area.

Those two rovers have to have been one of the best value space missions ever.

[rufusruffcutt]

I can't believe Opportunity has been active for 10 years, that is amazing and a credit to the engineers and designers. Hope the reformatting goes well.

[scubadude]

Amazing what NASA do with relatively humble electronics, albeit radiation hardened.

It would be a great shame if it doesn't work... or the only solution is pressing the reset button on the side :-)

[xRIEx]

Halmyre said:

How do they know some alien lizard didn't whack it with a fossilised thighbone?

You're confusing Mars with Manchester.

[Halmyre]

xRIEx said:

Halmyre said:

How do they know some alien lizard didn't whack it with a fossilised thighbone?

You're confusing Mars with Manchester.

No, I recognise an arid inhospitable wasteland devoid of intelligent life when I see it.

[xRIEx]

Halmyre said:

xRIEx said:

Halmyre said:

How do they know some alien lizard didn't whack it with a fossilised thighbone?

You're confusing Mars with Manchester.

No, I recognise an arid inhospitable wasteland devoid of intelligent life when I see it.

[Nimby]

This reminds me of Larry Niven's short story Plaything