NASA expects the Cassini spacecraft to be back to normal before Thanksgiving after going into standby mode last week.

Engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory reset the craft's onboard computer and cleared the problem. It's still unknown why the glitch occurred.

Cassini is expected to be fully up and running again on November 24. One of its science instruments has been turned on, and engineers will bring the rest online next week.

Cassini was scheduled to fly by Saturn's largest moon Titan tomorrow. The flyby will occur as planned, but the craft will not return science data.

• normal [´nɔ:məl] a.正规的 n.正常状态 (初中英语单词)
• computer [kəm´pju:tə] n.计算机；电子计算器 (初中英语单词)
• running [´rʌniŋ] a.奔跑的；流动的 (初中英语单词)
• thanksgiving [´θæŋks,giviŋ] 感恩节 (高中英语单词)
• laboratory [lə´bɔrətəri] n.实验室；研究室(所) (高中英语单词)