Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 4, 2015 #1 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb. 27 that halted a process of transferring sample material between devices on the rover's robotic arm.Telemetry received from the rover indicated that a transient short circuit occurred and the vehicle followed its programmed response, stopping the arm activity underway at the time of the irregularity in the electric current. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+joc Posted March 5, 2015 #2 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover As I look at that picture and read the article...I just cannot help but be in awe of the fact that we actually have a robotic lab on the surface of the Planet Mars, drilling into the surface, analyzing Mars...close up and personal...especially that picture....it is just surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 6, 2015 Author #3 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears to be an intermittent short circuit in the drill.A fluctuation in current on Feb. 27 triggered a fault-protection response that immediately halted action by the rover during the mission's 911th Martian day, or sol. Since then, the rover team has avoided driving Curiosity or moving the rover's arm, while engineers have focused on diagnostic tests. Science observations with instruments on the rover's mast have continued, along with environmental monitoring by its weather station. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted March 16, 2015 #4 Share Posted March 16, 2015 In case you missed it, Curiosity is operational again and continuing its work at Mt. Sharp http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/200789-nasa-engineers-isolate-curiosity-rovers-short-circuit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefenceMinisterMishkin Posted March 16, 2015 #5 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Shoddy PCB work.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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