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September 02, 2014

Opportunity Flash-Memory Reformat Planned
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2014
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading toward 'Marathon Valley', a putative location for abundant clay minerals. However, flash-memory induced resets have increased in occurrence, preventing meaningful science until this problem can be corrected. The project is developing plans to reformat the flash file system to correct the problem. A flash-memory reformat was done successfully five years ago on Spirit, but this will be the first time on Opportunity. The project is preparing ... read more

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