Mars Orbiter Back in Commission

After several weeks, the $720 million spacecraft called Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has awaken from its "precautionary stand-by" and has resumed taking photographs of the red planet. The orbiter has experienced 6 glitches in its software, which has the ability to take pictures of Mars and relay them back to Earth, with the most recent one coming in February of this year. NASA scientists have tied the most recent glitch to cosmic rays being blasted through space and short-circuiting the photography and transmitting software.