Curiosity Rover Resumes Mars Ops With Software Workaround

Credit: Curiosity: NASA/JPL
HOUSTON—NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover resumed normal operations July 11, nine days after the mechanical geologist was hobbled by what ground experts at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe is a software conflict involving data exchanges between one of the spacecraft’s three cameras and the...

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