The famous Mars rover is the closest thing the world has to a real-life Wall-E, as it brings Curiosity rover news (through NASA statements and even Twitter) about what can be found in the red planet, even greeting other ships as they arrive to our neighboring world.

Now, the latest Curiosity rover news put a slightly sad tune to the information it's been sending Earth, as it seems it went through a short circuit important enough to make it lose one of its arms, and engineers back home on Earth have stopped the famous rover's work as they try to fix him from a distance, in an operation that could take up days.

According to The Guardian, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) made a statement last Tuesday talking about the latest Curiosity rover news, speaking about how the electrical issue was discovered last weekend, after Curiosity attempted to transfer powder from a rock.

Sky News reports that they then discovered that the Curiosity rover news included a short circuit that had been serious enough to cause one of the robot's arms to stop responding.

After this discovery, NASA scientists stopped the rover from its regular work (which it has been up to since landing in 2012) and is now running tests on Curiosity, all of which are expected to take several days, keeping it from driving across the red planet.

In the past few months, Food World News has reported a few other Curiosity rover news like how over the past year it discovered that a 5km-high mountain in the planet's Gale Crater is what's left of a succession of lakes where now only a deep bowl remains; a few weeks later, Curiosity discovered that there's methane gas on the planet, an indicator of possible microbial life.

In any case, let's hope soon we get Curiosity rover news about how it's already fixed and running around Mars once again!