NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back. “We expect to get back to sample-analysis science by the end of the week,” said Curiosity Mission Manager Jennifer Trosper in a statement. On February 28, controllers put the rover into “minimal activity safe mode” when they switched the machine’s operations to a backup computer after detecting malfunctions in the primary computer’s flash memory Continue reading →