As noted in this blog, NASA lost contact with its Mars rover, Spirit, late last month. Contact has since been restored, but NASA still doesn't know what happened. It may never know. Spirit failed to record what it did for one full Martian day, or sol. The rover's computer memory for that time is blank.
Spirit, of course, was supposed to have lasted 90 Earth days on Mars. It's now into its sixth Earth year on the Red Planet. No one can reasonably gripe if it begins to have occasional senior moments.
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