Sunday, September 6, 2009

Glitch Sends NASA's Mars Orbiter Into Safe Mode

This image is an artist's concept of a view looking down
on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA.gov


From FOX News:


NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will be kept in its safe mode — suspending its science observations of the red planet for several weeks — while engineers try to investigate what is plaguing the spacecraft.


The 4-year-old orbiter has mysteriously rebooted its main computer three times this year, most recently on Aug. 26. It also inexplicably switched to a backup computer last month in a different malfunction.

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