Yes, you would have thought that now there is "enough power" (because it is no longer winter) that the failed rover would have re-booted itself after a number of days out of communications. There is no reason that we know of is there? - other than lack of power, which stops it being rebooted, reset, etc. It would be good to have a final image of the thing before it was left to rot on Mars, but hey-ho, it is all a sham and waste of time anyway.
Maybe I'll mosey on over to the MER analysts notebook and see if I can prod a few scientists with my sharp pointy stick and see if I can get anything out of them. Useless bunch of wallys. I think their skin is too scaly and tough for a sharp stick to have much impact actually. Anyway, you never know I suppose.
Too bad that it had to go out like that. I understand that resources are needed elsewhere. Shouldn't they have a mechanism for it to re-boot itself or something like that?
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