article_snippet: Earlier this year an increasing frequency of computer resets has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the NASA rover Opportunity's flash memory.
article_snippet: The resets, including a dozen this month, interfere with the NASA rover Opportunity's planned science activities, even though recovery from each incident is completed within a day or two. '
article_snippet: Worn-out cells in the flash memory are the leading suspect in causing these resets,' said John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, project manager for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project. '
article_snippet: The flash reformatting is a low-risk process, as critical sequences and flight software are stored elsewhere in other non-volatile memory on the NASA rover Opportunity.'