Washington: Scientists were making efforts to contact the non-responsive Spirit Mars rover, which has lost contact with the earth during the Martian winter prompting fears that it might be permanently lost.
Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Friday that it began paging the rover this week with a series of beeps that demand a response from Spirit. Scientists, however, expect the rover to be unable to ans-wer for several months bec-ause low solar battery pow-er has likely put it into hib-ernation mode during the winter, which runs from May to November.
—DPA