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I'd guess they don't know. Even on the press release they only refer to it as "a glitch in flash memory" [0]. [0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/ms
by lucaspiller 14y ago
I'd guess they don't know. Even on the press release they only refer to it as "a glitch in flash memory" [0].
[0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130228.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130228.html
- mturmon 14y agoI think you're right. In general, single-event upsets (SEUs), which are a single change to usually a handful of bits, from a cosmic ray, are far more common than permanent damage.