• Curiosity Mars Rover Resumes Full Operations

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    Curiosity Mars Rover Resumes Full Operations
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report

    UPDATED JULY 11, 2016 AT 1:15 P.M. PDT

    NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is resuming full operations today, following
    work by engineers to investigate why the rover put itself into a safe
    standby mode on July 2. The rover team brought Curiosity out of safe mode
    on July 9.

    The most likely cause of entry into safe mode has been determined to be
    a software mismatch in one mode of how image data are transferred on board. Science activity planning for the rover is avoiding use of that mode,
    which involves writing images from some camerasrCO memories into files
    on the roverrCOs main computer. Alternate means are available for handling
    and transmitting all image data.

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