![]() If that is the case, the only thing that could possibly save the rover’s only power source would be if that dust was blown away, and as luck would have it, the coming season is perfect for doing just that. One of the final hopes for NASA engineers is that the rover’s solar panels were simply caked with dust when it was swallowed up by the storm. Scientists remain hopeful that the rover still has some life left in it, but warn that it’s possible the rover is indeed dead. The rover entered a low-power default state when a massive dust storm swallowed Mars and cut off light from Opportunity’s solar panels. ![]() With the dust storm that doomed Opportunity now long gone, the last hope for the rover may rest in a different Mars weather phenomenon.įor the past several weeks, NASA has been sending plenty of signals to the rover in the hopes that the aging hardware will finally snap out of its funk. NASA has been keeping a close eye on Opportunity - well, as close of an eye as you can when the rover refuses to actually communicate - but in a new update, the space agency offers a tiny glimmer of hope. In fact, last week was so rough on NASA that it was easy to forget the fact that the Opportunity rover is still sitting lifeless on the Red Planet. With NASA’s Hubble and Chandra spacecraft both choosing the same week to malfunction, it’s obviously been a trying time for space agency engineers, who are working tirelessly to keep space hardware up and running. Russia thinks it knows why its trusty Soyuz rocket failed ![]() Now there’s something wrong with NASA’s Chandra spacecraft Prescription drugs keep popping up in dietary supplements
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