"Opportunity successfully executed our second deep sleep of the
mission. We survived the night just fine with that and it saved the
energy that we expected to. More importantly our Mini-TES
instrument, which we put in danger by the deep sleep operation, did
survive the night and we hope it will survive more of these. But
we're getting dangerously close to the cold temperatures that it
isn't able to survive through."
Source: Mars Rover Flight Director Chris Lewicki
in JPL's recorded update, after Opportunity apparently cheated
death again last week. The rover's heat circuit, activated at night
to preserve temperature-sensitive equipment, failed to turn itself
off during the Martian days, severely draining the rover's
solar-fed batteries. The solution: put Opportuni