The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is starting to have some glitches. This is understandable, as it is about to be the mars mission that has returned the most scientific data. Only one of its camera lenses (it has 14) is starting to be faulty, returning images with bad pixels or distorted data. An instrument that measures atmospheric distributions and ice has been malfunctioning to the point that it is temporarily being put out of commission until the think tank down here on earth figures out how to fix it. Regardless of whether the orbiter broke right now, it has still returned enormous amounts of data and has been instrumental in mapping the surface of mars to greater detail.
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