NASA communications with Mars rovers soon to go silent
Within days, NASA's robotic rovers and orbiters working on Mars will go silent.
Starting today, communication with all machines working on Mars will become spotty -- and within about a week should stop all together, according to Richard Zurek, chief scientist in the Mars Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA is dealing with a solar conjunction, which is when the Sun is almost directly in the path between Earth and Mars, knocking out communications between the two planets. The solar conjunction has just begun. Communications between Earth and Mars will be minimal for the next week or so and then go dark until around May 1.
