Summary The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission has the primary objective of placing a science orbiter into a low and near-circular Sun-synchronous Mars orbit to perform remote sensing investigations to characterize the surface, subsurface, and atmosphere of the planet and to identify potential...
in Pasadena. The technology used to engage in this research was done by capturing images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) while engaging in comparable experiments with sand dunes here on earth. The objects being studied were fundamentally hillside grooves on Mars (aka linear gullies)...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO for short, is being readied for sendoff next year. The huge spacecraft carries a suite of instruments, including a camera system able to provide ultra-close-up images of Mars' surface, and a sounder to probe for water that might linger subsurface ...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary in orbit around Mars (after arriving on March 10, 2006). Launched on August 12, 2005, the large spacecraft, is looking for evidence that water existed on the surface of the Red Planet for a long time. While...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to keep using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) past the mid-2020s, the space agency said on Friday.
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Some HiRISE images show strange-looking formations. Sometimes it helps to look at Context Camera images to understand the circumstances of a scene. This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a close-up of a trough, along with channels draining
Ten years after launch, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed the Red Planet's diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week than the weekly total from all six other active Mars missions... And its work is far from over. ...
An artist’s impression of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the spacecraft’s main bus facing down, toward the red planet. (Image: mars.nasa.gov) Planetary scientists have been studying the seasonal accumulation and thawing of CO2at high latitudes on the Red Planet. The pattern has been...
This highly detailed image fromNASA’sMarsReconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders on the surface of Mars. The striking feature in this image, acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19, 2014, is a boulder-covered land...