The Mars rover survived the physical crash, but it looks like a software crash might be too much for it. At least that's my guess, a software crash. Unless of course little green men are at work...
NASA has one of the best software development processes in the world. They were one of the first to realize that beyond a certain level, increasing software quality gets exponentially more expensive. This makes software for systems like sattelites and robotic rovers very expensive, but even those systems are not perfect.
If it is in fact a software bug, this will be the second lander lost to a software bug. An earlier lander (I can't remember what it was called) was lost due to a problem in the software related to converting units of measurement.
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