"I'm pleased to report that it seems to be working fine. We
alleviated the problem."
Source: Glenn Reeves, NASA's chief software
engineer for the Mars rover, Spirit. After deleting 1700
"non-essential" files from the rover's hard drive and rebooting its
systems Friday, Spirit returned to normal operating mode. That
leads scientists to believe that the problems which caused Spirit
to stop communicating with Earth last week. Friday, Spirit
transmitted its first picture in a week, clearly indicating the
rover is on the mend.
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