It is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault. Perhaps, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault, as well.
The dust storm on Mars continues to subside with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site at around 1.3.
The science team has been listening for the rover over a broad range of times using the Deep Space Network (DSN) Radio Science Receiver.
In addition, commanding "sweep and beeps" throughout our daily DSN pass to address a possible complexity with certain conditions within the mission clock fault.
Total odometry is 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers).
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