Curiosity Rover on Mars Exercises Its 'New' Brain (Photo)
Curiosity Rover on Mars Exercises Its 'New' Brain (Photo)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | October 19, 2018 02:00pm ET
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is putting its "new" brain to work a bit while mission team members try to fix a memory issue with the "old" one.
"I get by with a little help from my friends. Thanks to the team swapping me back to the A-side computer, I took and sent back images this week with a camera I haven't used since 2013. Work continues to get full operations back on line. https://go.nasa.gov/2OwGtcH," the mission team said yesterday (Oct. 17) via Curiosity's official Twitter account, @MarsCuriosity.
That camera, by the way, is Curiosity's "Left A" navigation camera. [Photos: Spectacular Mars Vistas by NASA's Curiosity Rover]
Like many NASA spacecraft, Curiosity launched with two redundant computers, which the team calls the A-side and the B-side. The A-side was in action when the car-size robot touched down inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater in August 2012, but it experienced a serious glitch about 200 days later that spurred a swap to the B-side.
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