NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been an extremely important spacecraft. The remarkable amount of data it has sent back to Earth has been a large factor in helping to revolutionize our understanding of Mars. Yet, for all that, MRO seems to have a mind of its own.
On September 15, MRO's computer put itself into safe mode. That was the fifth computer glitch for the spacecraft in the past two years. Engineers are confident they can get MRO back to doing science, but by now, perhaps an equally interesting question is: Why does the MRO computer keep blinking out?
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