| Patch Tuesday for Curiosity? Probably off-topic, but it's starting to sound like Curiosity has a memory leak and NASA is pushing a patch this week. That'll teach them to hire programmers that Adobe fired 
»www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/n···311.html |
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| memory leak or bits that got filliped? |
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| Perhaps they peeked when they should have poked? |
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 Wily_OnePremium
join:2002-11-24
San Jose, CA | reply to lorennerol
How do you get "memory leak" from that story? There was memory corruption, and the cause could very well have been charged particles/cosmic rays. The rover's innards are shielded, but it's still a concern.
For info, cosmic rays can also affect systems here on Earth, and in fact become more prevalent in higher altitudes because our atmosphere provides "shielding". |
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| reply to lorennerol
Maybe they had an open networking interface that the bits were leaking out of.
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