The martian

While in safe mode, a spacecraft shuts down all science and awaits instructions from its flight controllers on how to recover. In the weeks that followed, NASA ...

Its mission is to study how Mars lost its surface water to become the dusty red world we see today. "All MAVEN's science instruments are currently online, but not all of them have been able to take data while the high gain antenna is restricted to pointing toward Earth," NASA officials wrote in the update. In the weeks that followed, NASA managed to revive MAVEN from safe mode, but in a limited capacity.