A computer glitch that caused the onboard computers to reboot triggered the Mars Odyssey orbiter to go into safe mode on Monday, preventing it from relaying data from the rovers currently rolling across the surface of Mars. Fortunately, the Mars Odyssey was not in danger and should be working normally again by the middle of this week. The Mars Odyssey is important in that the rovers on Mars use it to send data to Earth. Although, while the Odyssey has been down, the rovers were able to use their high-gain antenna to talk to earth directly.
Currently the rovers are very important to follow because one of them, Opportunity, has been investigating the inner slope of Victoria Crater, heading towards an area that may have information on the ancient environment.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070918_mo_glitch.html
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