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An unknown issue is said to have occurred last September 15, preventing the rover from beaming information back to Earth.

The rover team has turned off all of Curiosity's science instruments while engineers investigate the glitch.

Mission team members are also preparing to fire up the machine’s backup computer, in case they need it to diagnose the issue with the main frame.

NASA scientist Ashwin Vasavada revealed the rover remains otherwise healthy, in a statement on Wednesday.

“Over the past few days, engineers have been working to address an issue on Curiosity that is preventing it from sending much of the science and engineering data stored in its memory," he wrote.

“The rover remains in its normal mode and is otherwise healthy and responsive.”

But conspiracy theorists are not convinced.

Tyler Glockner, who runs channel secureteam10, took to YouTube to share the news.

(Image: GETTY)

“Maybe they do not want that information making its way back to Earth,” he said.

“I would not put it past NASA – they’ve had several blackouts over the years.

“This is very suspicious, I think they are hiding something on Mars.”

(Image: WIKI) (Image: WIKI)

And his video has racked up more than 100,000 hits already in less than a day, with viewers offering their opinions.

“I find this odd seeing how the timing seems to match up with the FBI shut down of the solar observatory,” one comment read.

Another added: “I do not trust NASA at all.”

And a third claimed: “Very suspicious.”