After snatching a world record last year, the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has now officially turned 10. The spacecraft was launched back in 2001, and it still supplies a wealth of data about the Red Planet. Odyssey launched on April 7, 2001, from Space Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS... |
9 April 2011
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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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A powerful dust storm, which recently covered the Martian skies, prevented sunlight from reaching Phoenix's hungered solar energy capturing device, and put the lander into a “Hospice Mode.” Technicians on Earth responsible with the mission could do nothing to prevent this from happening, although the... |
6 November 2008
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Here, on Earth, opal comes in many forms and compositions, from scarcer, more precious ones, to the more common. But none of these would ever dare to compete against a tiny fragment of the material recently discovered on Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and confirmed by the Spirit rover, on of the two rovers t... |
29 October 2008
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