To keep Opportunity on track, engineers have begun actively managing the files stored in its flash memory, said Jim Erickson, a mission manager.
Spirit was crippled after its random-access memory proved inadequate to manage the rover's flash memory, packed with unnecessary files that had piled up since the spacecraft's launch.
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