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Mars Odyssey in safe mode, Will not see much MER data until back online
Floyd
post Dec 7 2006, 08:02 PM
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Steve Squyres reports in Mission Update

December 7, 2006

A very quick update: We just learned this morning that the Mars Odyssey spacecraft has gone into "safe mode". This is something that can happen when there's a glitch of some sort on board the spacecraft... it puts itself into a very safe state and waits for commands from Earth. Mars Odyssey appears to be in great shape and should be back in business in a few days. A likely cause of the event was a big blast of high-energy particles from the Sun that got to Mars right before it happened. So there doesn't appear to be anything to worry about, and both rovers came through the particle event unscathed. But because we relay most of our data through Mars Odyssey, we won't see very much data from the rovers until Odyssey is back online.


Posted previously by nprev on the Solar Activity thread.


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post Dec 13 2006, 05:00 PM
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As I understand it - MO is back online. They had a little X-band downlink, but normality should now be resumed.

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- Floyd   Mars Odyssey in safe mode   Dec 7 2006, 08:02 PM
- - Sunspot   Just thinking the unthinkable here. What if NA...   Dec 9 2006, 05:35 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 9 2006, 05:35 PM) Wo...   Dec 9 2006, 06:29 PM
|- - Airbag   I'm just curious why there have not been any M...   Dec 10 2006, 03:59 PM
- - Floyd   Does anyone here on the USF forum have any upadate...   Dec 10 2006, 04:37 PM
- - PhilCo126   The European space agency ESA's " Mars Ex...   Dec 12 2006, 05:08 PM
- - Floyd   Some hazcam and navcam pictures have arrived at Ex...   Dec 13 2006, 03:46 PM
- - djellison   As I understand it - MO is back online. They had a...   Dec 13 2006, 05:00 PM
- - monitorlizard   I don't want to be a Nervous Nellie, but the J...   Dec 14 2006, 09:49 AM
- - Sunspot   That CME/Flare was more Earth directed, Mars is in...   Dec 14 2006, 10:42 AM

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