‘Sick’ curiosity is now fit and fine

MUMBAI: Curiosity is now fully operational following its recovery from a computer glitch, Nasa said on Tuesday. According to the space agency's latest announcement , the nearly one tonne rover has resumed full science investigations . The rover has been monitoring the weather since March 21 and delivered a new portion of powdered-rock sample for laboratory analysis on March 23, among other activities.

"We are back to full science operations ," Curiosity deputy project manager Jim Erickson of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, said. The powder delivered on Saturday came from the rover's first full drilling into a rock to collect a sample. The new portion went into the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument inside the rover , which began analyzing this material and had previously analyzed other portions from the same drilling.

The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station is recording weather variables. The Radiation Assessment Detector is checking the natural radiation environment at the rover's location inside Gale Crater. According to Nasa, one aspect of ramping-up activities after switching to the B-side computer has been to check the six engineering cameras that are hard-linked to that computer. The rover's science instruments, including five science cameras, can each be operated by either the Aside or B-side computer, whichever is active.

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