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    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as...
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    The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian...
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    2001 Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, may stop functioning, resulting in the need to press the MAVEN science orbiter into use as a backup...
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    (CO2) ice near Mars' poles. On October 19, 2014, NASA reported that the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, as well as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and MAVEN, were...
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    mission with Mars Express to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. On 12 August 2005, NASA launched Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)....
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    The Mars Orbiter Camera and Mars Observer Camera (MOC) were scientific instruments on board the Mars Observer and Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The...
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    description. Wikinews has related news: New Mars Orbiter arrives for launch Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Martian orbit April 30, 2005: the MRO spacecraft...
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    been proposed as the 2013 Mars Science Orbiter. The communications capability provided by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Express science missions...
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    as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This observational work has been complemented by a type of scientific computer simulation called the Mars general...
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  • The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO or ExoMars Orbiter) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Roscosmos agency...
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    Express, European Mars orbiter Mars Orbiter Mission – Indian orbiter mission to Mars (2013–2022) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA Mars orbiter launched in...
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    stage, each consisting of an orbiter and an attached lander. After the Mars 2 lander crashed on the Martian surface, the Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft...
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    are seven orbiters surveying the planet: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, the Trace Gas Orbiter, the Hope Mars Mission,...
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    Malin Space Science Systems (category Missions to Mars)
    Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Phoenix lander. One of the most successful of their instruments to date was the Mars Observer Camera (MOC)...
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    serve a different purpose than orbital spacecraft like Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. A more recent development is the Mars helicopter. As of May 2021[update]...
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    data from Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Moreover, this was the first use of an unscented Kalman Filter to determine the orbit of an anthropogenic...
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    the first planetary mission attempted by ESA. Mars Express consisted of two parts, the Mars Express Orbiter and Beagle 2, a lander designed to perform exobiology...
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    The Mars monolith is a rectangular object, possibly a boulder, discovered on the surface of Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it...
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  • The satellites of Mars include : Non functional but (probably) orbiting: Viking 1 & 2 orbiter Mariner 9 Mars Global Surveyor Mars 2, 3, 5 Phobos 2 Tianwen...
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    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE instrument has taken many images that strongly suggest that Mars has had a rich history of water-related processes...
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  • montmorillonite and localized phyllosilicate minerals. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Launched in 2005 this orbiter carried multiple instruments which found the mineralogy...
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    The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) was a visible-infrared spectrometer aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter searching for...
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    camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Northern part of Terby Crater showing many layers, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Channels...
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    (MERs), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and Mars Phoenix lander have provided information about water's abundance and distribution on Mars. Mars Odyssey...
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    parts: an orbiter spacecraft which photographed the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander which studied the planet from the surface. The orbiters also served...
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    System Exploration Committee. Then titled the Mars Geoscience/Climatology Orbiter, the Martian orbiter was planned to expand on the information already...
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    the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing what appears to be the lander's crash site. The telemetry data accumulated and relayed by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas...
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    ever existed on Mars as well as the types of minerals available, as well as to corroborate data taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Both rovers...
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  • Orbiter – launched in 2005 on a mission to study the planet Mars STEREO – launched in 2006 on a mission to study the Sun Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
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    spacecraft orbiting Mars whose location is not known precisely. There is a proposal to use the Optical Navigation Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to...
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