PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's eagle-eyed Mars orbiter is back in business, scanning the Red Planet's surface after entering safe mode last week, the space agency said Tuesday.
In a mission status report, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resumed science operations on Tuesday. The orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its
computer on June 3, and engineers brought it out of standby mode on June 6, NASA said. The time since then has been devoted to getting the orbiter's cameras and other instruments back on the job.
Mars orbiter back at work after glitch - Space- msnbc.com
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