NASA rover Curiosity is back at work on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover resumed work on Monday after being in safe mode for nine days.
While NASA engineers have not fixed what is thought to be the software issue that caused the robotic rover to put itself into a protective mode, they believe they pinpointed the problem.
Using information the rover transmitted back to Earth, NASA engineers determined that the problem stemmed from a "mismatch" in systems involved in transferring data.
"Science activity planning for the rover is avoiding use of that mode, which involves writing images from some cameras' memories into files on the rover's main computer," the space agency reported in an online update.
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