After a reset, Curiosity Rover thought to be dead is now operating normally

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[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Someone from the island it's being shot on walked by: dusted it off, did some repairs and went back to the quonset for some quality US military issued food, just on the other side of the ridge!

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

You have me laughing out loud!

They used the classic IT "power cycle" trick. "Fixed it."

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Relevant IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly that. That's NASA 2019.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I doubt you'd even need to do repairs. Probably just dust it off; Curiosity is pretty hardy.

Resetting the rover is RISKY! If it doesn't turn back on again properly, you can't send another reset signal – it's over. That's why they didn't do it to try to fix any of the earlier issues.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

ha, maybe they just replaced the whole thing with a brand new one . shipped the old one to china to be smelted