National Briefing - Science and Health - Glitch Hinders a Second Day on Mars - Brief -
A communications glitch kept the Phoenix lander from getting instructions for its second day on Mars, mission officials said. But the problem was fixed later in the day, The Associated Press quoted NASA officials as saying. The spacecraft is equipped to send and receive data via radio from two satellites, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Odyssey. But the Reconnaissance Orbiter spontaneously turned off its UHF radio, preventing transmission of the day’s instructions. “Phoenix is healthy; everything is fine,” Fuk Li, the manager of the Mars exploration program for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said at a news conference.
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