Opportunity (rover) a geographic feature named "Cape York". The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had detected phyllosilicates there, and the rover analyzed the rocks with its instruments to check this sighting on the ground. This structure was analyzed in depth until summer 2013. At May 2013 the rover was heading south to a hill named "Solander Point". "Opportunity"s total odometry as of June 27, 2016 (sol 4417) was , while the dust factor is 0.725. In December 2014, NASA reported that "Opportunity" was suffering from "amnesia" events in which the rover fails to write data, e.g. telemetry information, to non-volatile memory. The hardware failure
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