UH oh..

[docwebster]

(AP) - NASA's Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars in an ominous turn that baffled engineers and sent them scrambling desperately Thursday to figure out what brought the mission to a potentially calamitous halt. NASA received its last significant data from the unmanned Spirit early Wednesday, its 19th day on the surface of Mars. Since then, the six-wheeled vehicle has sent either random, meaningless radio noise or simple beeps acknowledging it has received commands from Earth.

"'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one', he said. 'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one', but still they come." - Jeff Wayne's rock opera of "War Of The Worlds", 1978

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[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I heard they thought it was software problem, it's OS crashed...

Apparently it's a custom version of Windows.

[beanrua.livejournal.com]

Yaknow, that was the first thing that crossed my mind...it's GOT to be running Windoze.

Might be hard to cold boot it all the way out there.