http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6. http://www.physorg.com/news169145601.html Space & Earth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:53:54 EST news169145601 NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle. http://www.physorg.com/news163393220.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:00:39 EST news163393220 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August. http://www.physorg.com/news179576186.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:40:01 EST news179576186 During analysis of four safe-mode events this year, engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have identified a vulnerability to the effects of subsequent events. http://www.physorg.com/news171294126.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:10:07 EST news171294126 Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news174243114.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:52:48 EST news174243114 Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet. http://www.physorg.com/news171226619.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:57:51 EST news171226619 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, while maintaining spacecraft health and communications. While in safe mode, the spacecraft has limited activities pending further instructions from ground controllers. http://www.physorg.com/news170618089.html Space & Earth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:55:50 EST news170618089 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news155404099.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:50:08 EST news155404099 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have stepped up the communication rate being received from the orbiter as an early step in the process of determining why the spacecraft spontaneously rebooted its computer on Aug. 26. http://www.physorg.com/news170957402.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:10:38 EST news170957402 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today. http://www.physorg.com/news180197616.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:54:30 EST news180197616 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer Monday morning, Feb. 23, and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response. http://www.physorg.com/news154892208.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:37:24 EST news154892208 A telescopic camera in orbit around Mars caught a view of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suspended from its parachute during the lander's successful arrival at Mars Sunday evening, May 25. http://www.physorg.com/news131121333.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 May 2008 15:35:33 EST news131121333 Mesas in the Nilosyrtis Mensae region of Mars appear in enhanced color in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). http://www.physorg.com/news129310390.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 May 2008 16:33:10 EST news129310390 Microsoft and NASA on Tuesday announced an alliance to focus the software giant's virtual WorldWide Telescope on space agency images of Mars and other celestial bodies. http://www.physorg.com/news157130619.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:24:56 EST news157130619 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is approaching Mars and, if maneuvers go well, will join three other Earth spacecraft in orbit around the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news11430.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:41:41 EST news11430