This morning’s paper reported that NASA had lost contact with the Spirit rover:
“Since Wednesday, its 19th day on Mars, the Spirit had sent back to Earth only meaningless radio noise or simple beeps acknowledging receipt of commands. Among the possible causes: a corruption of its software or computer memory.”
I find it suspicious, first the British probe Beagle fails to report in and now this…is it a simple “Windows Mars Edition” bug in the rover or could the Martians be sabotaging our attempts at fact finding?