After several days of Curiosity being in safety mode, NASA engineers have resumed communication with their Mars rover.

NASA announced that engineers are working to restore the robotic rover, which landed on Mars in August 2012, to full working mode.

Curiosity is stable and not in danger.

The rover, which discovered that ancient Mars held key chemicals needed for life as well as evidence of ancient water flows, put itself into safe mode on July 2.

NASA said Curiosity’s team has not yet pinpointed why the robot took that precautionary step, which meant it stopped all activities that weren’t necessary for keeping itself running on a basic level.

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