On Friday of last week, Curiosity encountered an obstacle that produced a jolt during startup causing an interruption of activities and putting the system in “safe mode”.
Tuesday, February 19, technicians were able to restore full functionality of the rover that could restart the system for thirty times without further problems.
During the week, technicians have invited and received data from Curiosity in an attempt to discover the nature of the problem, but at the moment it has not yet been identified.
Currently scientific operations are reduced to a minimum to try to identify the nature of the problem and avoid the loss of valuable data…
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