NASA is putting pause on sending commands to its Mars exploration instruments from November 11 through November 25 as it waits out the Mars solar conjunction. With the sun in the way, any commands sent to Mars could suffer interference capable of harming the robotic explorers.
You’ve for the start of a sci Fi movie there : Mars comes out from behind the sun to find communication from Earth has stopped
Marvin got his hands on the Q35 space modulater didn’t he?