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Using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has recently snapped some amazing photos of unique features on the surface of the Red Planet, fluidized-ejecta craters (also known as rampart craters). The geological formations, which result from comet, a... |
14 November 2009
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was a NASA mission that launched to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007, aboard the Delta II 7925 vehicle. It consisted of a robotic station that was to conduct scientific experiments on Mars, and study surface chemistry, weather patterns, atmospheric conditions, and the landscape too. Originally... |
5 November 2009
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According to astronomers investigating the pictures sent back by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), it would appear that areas near the Hale crater, on the surface of the Red Planet, are laden with channels. In a view that covers an area about ... |
29 October 2009
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Astronomers studying pictures sent back by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), currently circling the Red Planet, say that an intriguing clump of depressions in the Martian soils could be the entries to an underground cave system. The underground refuges could be supporting microscopic life forms that were driven ... |
26 October 2009
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Despite its ongoing “health problems,” the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is still apt to take beautiful, high-resolution pictures of the Red Planet. Some 233 recent telescopic observations of the surface yielded thousands of detailed images of various features on the planet, ranging from sand dunes to... |
9 October 2009
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According to a recent series of investigations that analyzed the surface of the Red Planet halfway between the North Pole and its equator, water ice may exist directly under the first layers of soil. Also, experts have found, it may be that these reserves are as much as 99 percent pure, and free of any contaminants. ... |
25 September 2009
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is the most active probe sent to the Red Planet to date. Up until now, it has sent back the most pieces of information on the planet of all missions, and continues to do so at a steady rate, in spite of occasional glitches and reboots. Recently, with the help of one of it... |
24 September 2009
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Experts at the Technical University of Prague Center for Machine Perception, under the direction of scientist Dr. Michal Havlena, have recently announced the development of a new computer system, capable of reproducing the Red Planet in 3D detail within minutes. The platform can also be fed images collected by explor... |
18 September 2009
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Experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have recently released a new report, detailing the condition of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Having suffered its fourth glitch this year, the craft is not exactly in the best shape of its life, mission planners say. Analysis of the lat... |
14 September 2009
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From the beginning of April through early August of 2009, the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recorded a number of about 1,500 new photographs of the Martian surface. The amazing snapshots, taken with a resolution as small as 25 centimeters per p... |
14 September 2009
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After the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) again entered safe mode recently, experts and managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, are currently working on reestablishing contact with the space probe. After the August 26th glitch, the orbiter rebooted its computer, but did not engage i... |
29 August 2009
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Experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the NASA-operated Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) entered 'safe mode' again on Wednesday, for the fourth time this year. While in this mode, the spacecraft maintains its altitude and direction controls, but all its othe... |
27 August 2009
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According to mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the powerful NASA-operated Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was finally pulled off of the backup computer it was forced to relay on last week. Its main systems exhibited a bizarre error, which sent the spacecraft in safe m... |
12 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is, at this point, the NASA spacecraft that has returned the highest amount of scientific data of all missions to the Red Planet. The volume of information engineers back on Earth received since November 2006 can now fill about 1,000 CDs, and is on par with the amount of data bea... |
23 July 2009
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After carefully assessing a large number of landscape features on the surface of Mars, astronomers and geologists have concluded that the recent past of our neighboring planet was a lot more wetter than it is now. Admittedly, there is currently no liquid water to be found, but billions of years ago, rivers and deltas... |
30 June 2009
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On Wednesday night, the main computer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) unexpectedly rebooted, under the puzzled faces of mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. At 9:10 pm EDT (01:10 June 4 GMT), the craft rebooted and entered 'safe mode,' a state that al... |
5 June 2009
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A new set of observations, just recently received from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) probe currently moving above the Red Planet, have revealed a set of landscape features that hint at the fact that water flowed on the surface of our neighbor no longer than one billion years ago. Although that may see... |
15 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Man's presence on Mars these days is absolutely amazing – two rovers that operate since 2004, a lander that was able to conclude without a doubt that water existed on mars, and an orbiter capable of surveying and analyzing the surface of the planet with the same accuracy as Earth-orbit observation satellit... |
16 April 2009
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Next week, the team managing NASA's Mars Odissey spacecraft will perform a risky computer reboot, in order to address a long-standing, known issue with the probe's internal memory. If left unchecked, this vulnerability could cause a lot of damage to the craft, and could hinder the astronomers behind the pro... |
5 March 2009
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Early on Monday, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suffered an unexpected glitch and was forced to reboot its primary computer system and enter safe mode, mission scientists announced late on Wednesday. The malfunction means that further scientific observations are impossible until the problem is found and fixe... |
27 February 2009
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A new scientific study now seeks to bring further information about the mounds identified on Martian soil, which last spring had astronomers buzzing with excitement, because they could have very well been remnants of or even active hot springs, not unlike those found at the Yellowstone national park, in the US. If th... |
13 February 2009
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The number of scientific devices studying the red planet is continuously on the rise. This adds to the constant discovery of unusual features sported by Mars, eventually providing more insight on its formation, evolution and structure. More recent images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)'s High R... |
26 November 2008
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Communications with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, relaying data from the Phoenix Mars Lander to Earth, were restored after a slight glitch that delayed the mission of the lander for one day. Thus, on Wednesday mission controllers gave Phoenix the 'go ahead' to unfold the 2.4 meter long robotic arm it wil... |
29 May 2008
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It seems that NASA has hit the jackpot with the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Red Planet and is planning to make the best of it. After it revealed on Monday that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to photograph the spacecraft while descending to the surface, NASA has now released an image... |
28 May 2008
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On the evening of May 25, the Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down in the northern regions of the Red Planet. As it descended to the surface of Mars, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - monitoring the progress of the Phoenix spacecraft - captured ... |
27 May 2008
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Phoenix's nine month journey to the Red Planet is set to end tomorrow, May 25, with its landing in the north polar regions of Mars. Whether or not it manages to land remains uncertain until the spacecraft is safely on the ground, especially considering the relatively long list of failed missions to the Red Plane... |
24 May 2008
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It is possible that there may have been much weather on Mars in its distant past. If true that hydrothermal springs could have easily appeared on its surface; and where there are hydrothermal springs, there is a good change that life is as well. There have been several claims in the past that hot springs were spotted... |
25 April 2008
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Mars' largest and closest moon, Phobos, was recently photographed with the help of the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, during a fly-by through its vicinity. 3D color images of the small moon reveal a material rim around its biggest surface structure, the Stickney crater, measuring 9 kilom... |
10 April 2008
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The unique event has been observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, HiRISE for short, on February 19, during a scan of a region of the Red Planet's surface near the north pole. This is the first image of an avalanche ever surprised on Mars! The image release... |
4 March 2008
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Not only that, but the new study published by the University of Arizona refutes the evidence that liquid water ever flowed on the surface of the Red Planet. The evidence? Martian gullies which seem to have been carved by the erosive action of some kind of liquid agent, which were spotted on the Martian surface in 199... |
29 February 2008
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Who said Martians are evil? Maybe they are trying to tell us something... I mean, just look at the evidence: happy face on Mars in 1999, happy face on Mars in 2006, Big Foot only a few days ago and, last but no least, happy face on Mars 2008. This particular image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context ... |
5 February 2008
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So, why did Big Foot run on Mars? To get more publicity, why do you think? It's now official, what seemed to be an alien figure standing in the middle of the Martian desert is in fact only a rock sculptured by winds. However, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter brings evidence which seems to contest the fact... |
26 January 2008
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No wonder NASA received funding cuts for its Near Earth Object program, as it seems they are spending a lot of money on nothing. The threat at which NASA is exposing the human race to got updated in late November last year when asteroid 2007 WD5 was discovered. Upon calculating the trajectory of the object through th... |
4 January 2008
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Uncertainty hovers over Spirit, as it 'fights' for its 'life' on the surface of Mars, in order to reach the designated spot that would ensure its necessary power to remain operational over the coming Martian winter. To improve the chances that in the following winters the twin rovers, Spirit and O... |
17 December 2007
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