NASA scientists report successful rebooting of the Curiosity after the Mars rover suffers software glitch. November 13, 2013 9:35 AM PST NASA's Mars rover Curiosity (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A software glitch forced NASA engineers to perform a "warm reset," otherwise known as a soft reboot of the Mars rover Curiosity. NASA said the successful reboot took place November 7, roughly four-and-half hours after administrators temporarily loaded new flight software into the rover's memory. For the next three days, Curiosity was put into what NASA called "safe mode." The system is now working normally. Related stories NASA re-creates ancient Mars on YouTube India sends rocket to Mars for cheap Mars crater might be remnant of an ancient supervolcano SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch in California Curiosity findings show 2 percent of Mars soil contains water The agency said it still does not know what caused the problem and it marked the first time NASA had to execute a fault-related warm reset on Curiosity, which landed on inside Mars' Gale Crater 16 months ago. Jim Erickson, project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. said in a statement that the telemetry later downlinked from the rover "indicates the warm reset was performed as would be expected in response to an unanticipated event."
NASA scientists report successful rebooting of the Curiosity after the Mars rover suffers software glitch.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
A software glitch forced NASA engineers to perform a "warm reset," otherwise known as a soft reboot of the Mars rover Curiosity.
NASA said the successful reboot took place November 7, roughly four-and-half hours after administrators temporarily loaded new flight software into the rover's memory. For the next three days, Curiosity was put into what NASA called "safe mode." The system is now working normally.
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The agency said it still does not know what caused the problem and it marked the first time NASA had to execute a fault-related warm reset on Curiosity, which landed on inside Mars' Gale Crater 16 months ago.
Jim Erickson, project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. said in a statement that the telemetry later downlinked from the rover "indicates the warm reset was performed as would be expected in response to an unanticipated event."
