Nasa is about to wipe and reformat the memory in the Opportunity Rover:
http://readwrite.com/2014/09/03/nasa...s-rover-memory
I hope she makes it.
else we'll have a Silent Opportunity as well:
Silent Spirit
The pictures were brilliant
the best ever seen from the
surface of Mars. Then
as it reached out
to touch that surface,
like Adam reaching
to touch the finger of God,
it died, sending only a
nondescript tone across
millions of miles –
a heart monitor flatlined
leaving humanity listening
with perked ears and
waiting on Opportunity.
Kenny A. Chaffin – 8/14/2014
First published in James Gunn's Ad Astra -
http://adastra.ku.edu/silent-spirit-kenny-a-chaffin/
and later in this thread's collection - The Poet of Utah Park -
http://www.amazon.com/Poet-Utah-Park.../dp/B00EKOTNA0