Curiosity has resumed sending images to Earth after a stop of 27 Sol.
Apparently the change from computer B to computer A was successful, but the real problem has yet to be solved.
In fact, the computer A has a very small memory capacity due to an electrical fault, occurred on Sol 200, which forced technicians to exclude most of the memory banks because they caused an abnormal power consumption.
Despite this, Computer A will still allow a minimum of scientific activity but, more importantly, will allow to identify the problem of Computer B in the hope of being able to solve it. The primary intention is to restore full functionality of Computer B, thus being able to return to use it as a primary computer to take full advantage of its memory capabilities.
Let’s say that the first part of the work has succeeded and now we just have to hope for the full recovery of computer B…
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