Thursday, 7 July 2016

NASA works to wake up Curiosity as mission gets two-year extension

May 11, 2016 self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been cleared for another two-year extended mission to study the Red Planet – if it can wake up. Since July 2, the unmanned explorer has been in safe mode, and although Curiosity is said to be stable and reporting back to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, engineers are trying to find out why it ceased most of its activities.

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