Curio City is exploring around Mars. In fact, since the beginning of July, there was no communication with the earth. Although it has been successfully revived now, the cause of the lack of communication is "that function," which can be said to be a characteristic of Curio City.
Speaking of Curiosity, it is familiar with the spacecraft that likes selfies. Taking pictures here and there on Mars, the camera is a trademark. However, the problem this time was that there was a problem with the camera and the image data storage mechanism.
A software error occurred when trying to save image data to the main computer. How, I switched myself to safe mode. When safe mode is activated, everything else is shut down with minimal functionality. It took a while for 10 days from the activation of safe mode on the 2nd of this month to the recovery of the function, so the people concerned may have been worried.
Having trouble with your Curio City camera doesn't mean you can't see your Martian photos. Don't worry about it! Jet Propulsion Laboratory is thinking about ways to save images while avoiding defective software.
Earlier this month, it was announced that "Curio City's activities will be extended by two years," and we still have to work hard.
Since it was launched in November 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012, Curiosity is a very good guy who has been adventuring vigorously without any major problems such as this. Even though it was okay, sometimes there were stones caught in the tires, buried in hills, and bugs in the camera's focus function. However, it's a big deal because one person (one aircraft) is adventuring in the desert of Mars that human beings haven't seen yet.
image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS
source: NASA
Ria Misra --Gizmodo US [Original]
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