  Until the first...  NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter On the
Mend After Glitch  NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) put
itself into a precautionary "safe mode" March 7, but the
venerable spacecraft is now on the mend, agency officials say.
MRO switched over to safe mode after unexpectedly swapping from
one main computer to another, NASA officials said March 11. As a
result of the glitch, science operations have been suspended,
and the probe is not relaying data from the space agency's two
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'Jelly Doughnut' Mars Rock Was Not Created by a Meteorite  New
photos of the Martian landscape further rule out a meteorite
impact as the culprit behind the "jelly doughnut" rock that
mysteriously appeared in front of one of NASA's Mars rovers last
month. NASA's Mars Reconnaiss