NASA loses primary communications with Mars Spirit rover

NASA is investigating a "serious anomaly" with the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) "Spirit" that has left it unable to send data back to Earth and apparently put it into a preprogrammed "fault mode," the space agency said Jan. 22. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in...

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