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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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...
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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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    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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    redirect targets HiRISE – Camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Libya Montes – Highland terrain on Mars up-lifted by a giant impact, home to another...
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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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    Mars Mars Express, European Mars orbiter Mars Orbiter Mission – Indian space probe, launched in 2013 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA Mars orbiter launched...
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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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    HiRISE (category Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter)
    Science Experiment is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which has been orbiting and studying Mars since 2006. The 65 kg (143 lb), US$40 million...
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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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    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 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter (ODY) at speeds up to 2 Mbit/s and 256 kbit/s, respectively, but each orbiter is only...
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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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    (MERs), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and Mars Phoenix lander have provided information about water's abundance and distribution on Mars.[full citation...
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  • research orbiter and the Schiaparelli demonstration lander to Mars in 2016 as part of the European-led ExoMars programme. The Trace Gas Orbiter delivered...
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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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    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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    orbits of Earth and Mars brought them closer than they had been in about 60,000 years. Mars Express consists of two parts, the Mars Express Orbiter and...
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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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    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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    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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    Mare Australe quadrangle (category Mars)
    camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) Weinbaum crater region showing dust devil tracks, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Field of...
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    of the landing site measured by satellites currently orbiting Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also helps this cause in the sense that its cameras...
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    orbiter and NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter, Mars Polar Lander, and Deep Space 2 penetrators all suffering various terminal errors. Mars Climate Orbiter is...
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