American Mars rover.
Sam Seiber writes:
Otherwise I feel JPL will stay away from the press while they work
the problem.
They said at the 9 AM (PST) briefing that they were telling everyone
to get some sleep during the rover's normal sleep period, so I don't
expect any more news until this evening (PST).
This morning (PST) they sent up a simple command and got unconfirmed
news from the DSN that the rover replied with an indication that it
was in fault mode. A previous (but recent) pre-scheduled fault-mode
communication didn't happen and the symptoms are not ones that point
to previously-considered problems.
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