What technical glitch crippled the revered Mars Exploration Rover Spirit mere weeks after its deployment on the Red Planet — and what unexpectedly simple solution allowed the plucky probe to resume its historic explorations unimpeded?
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It was stuck in an endless reboot cycle, which was traced to problems with the flash memory, which in turn was traced to faulty file management software. The fix was to delete unnecessary files (such as flight data) and then reboot, which restored normal operations. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MER-A#Timeline
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Ran out of duct tape! LOL
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