The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or MRO seems to be having a few issues.  The $720 million dollar mission is on hold while scientists try and determine why the system keeps rebooting.  In fact the MRO has had 4 computer resets this year before NASA scientists put the spacecraft in to safe mode.  While in safe mode the spacecraft has its solar arrays tracking the sun and communications antennae pointed at Earth to allow additional communications and software uplinks.


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  3. FirstManOnMars says:
    November 9, 2009 at 11:14 am

    I like.

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  4. MarcusZ says:
    November 9, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Hehe, well I like the humor there (and I really laughed about the “mars edition” :D ) but I think it was a little bit too much for a single video. When I start looking at the clock, thinking “man, how much longer will this go on”, that's not exactly what should happen while watching a SVC daily. ;)

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  5. QuarkSpin says:
    November 9, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    I'm orbiting ur planet, spying on ur surface features. – MRO

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  6. Bencredible says:
    November 9, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    HA! That would have been another great approach to this one. Ahhh the fun we can have…

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  7. Rack88 says:
    November 10, 2009 at 3:14 am

    I agree MarcusZ. It was a bit much. Never thought I'd see that startup screen ever again.

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  8. Bencredible says:
    November 10, 2009 at 4:18 am

    I would argue… It was *perfect*. Got the point across, grabbed your attention and showed exactly how big of a nasty bug this is all while being entertaining. Perfect!

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  9. Zachary McCauley says:
    November 10, 2009 at 11:39 am

    LOL @Bencredible for the MRO Daily. I hope that the MRO really isn't running Windows….might cause issues.

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