When Curiosity attempts to land on Mars next month, it will go through a complex process that will take seven long minutes. To find out if the landing is successful, however, mission staff may have to wait a bit longer than that seven minutes.
NASA's Mars Observer, orbiting Mars, was supposed to double as a communications relay station between Curiosity and JPL The probe recently suffered a computer glitch, though, that might hamper the relay function. If engineers can't get that cleared up in time, Earth will have to wait a few more minutes before learning whether Curiosity landed safely.
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