Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes Prime Mission

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes Prime Mission

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The orbiter has returned 73 terabits of science data, more than all earlier Mars missions combined. The spacecraft will build on this record as it continues to examine Mars in unprecedented detail during its next two-year phase of science operations.

Since moving into position 186 miles above Mars' surface in October 2006, the orbiter also has conducted 10,000 targeted observation sequences of high-priority areas. It has imaged nearly 40 percent of the planet at a resolution that can reveal house-sized objects in detail, 1 percent in enough detail to see desk-sized features.

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Hi all

We should get some really interesting images from this data.
All images should be made available to the people as it comes in!

NASA website for the MRO;
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov...
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov...

There clearly appears to be water.


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