Mars Odyssey instrument revived. (Astronomy).The Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which began mapping the Red Planet in February, has already recorded some intriguing images and spectra of the Martian surface (SN: 3/9/02, p. 149). Although its neutron and gamma-ray spectrometers, as well as a device gathering temperature data and infrared images, have functioned according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. plan, another detector had proved troublesome. A computer glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. caused the Mars Radiation Experiment (MARIE Marie (mərē`), 1875–1938, queen of Romania, consort of Ferdinand. The daughter of Alfred, duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, she was the granddaughter of Czar Alexander II of Russia and of Queen Victoria of England. ) to stop taking data last August, during Odyssey's journey to Mars. The device is intended to measure radiation near the Martian surface. Those data are needed to assess how people could safely explore the Red Planet. After several weeks of troubleshooting, flight controllers reestablished communication with MARIE in early March, and the instrument came back online March 14. With the revived instrument, "we now have the entire payload working," says Roger Gibbs Sir Roger Geoffrey Gibbs was born on 13 November 1934. He attended Eton College and Millfield School. He married his wife Jane on 21 September 2005. He was knighted in 1994. After a career as a stockbroker he has been Chairman of Gerrards and National Discount Co Ltd. , Odyssey project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. in Pasadena, Calif. --R.C. |
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