NASA's Curiosity Rover suffers from a computer problem

NASA has not had much luck lately with its rovers of March. In recent months, a global dust storm has threatened the agency's rover Opportunity, and the Curiosity rover has also suffered a setback. According to a recent mission update, the rover has encountered a kind of bug that prevents it from returning some of its data.

According to the update, the mission team noticed that something was not going on Saturday night. While Curiosity's live data arrived very well, NASA was unable to access some of the information stored in its memory banks. Even after several days of testing, this data remains trapped on Mars. As long as the problems are not solved, it will be harder for NASA scientists to use the mobile to explore the planet.

Fortunately, this seems to be a problem that has a solution. The live data that NASA still has access to contain mobile status information, and there is a good chance that engineers can use this information to solve the problem. Even in the worst case, Curiosity has a backup computer that can be used to diagnose the problem or even run the mobile.

NASA has not planned a timetable to expect Curiosity to be operational again, but the attitude of the engineers seems to be that it's just a matter of time. As they wait for the mobile to be repaired, the scientific team takes the opportunity to plan the next moves of the mission.