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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 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 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 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) -- 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 (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 An international group of space scientists and engineers are in Svalbard, Norway, field-testing instruments for future Mars missions. http://www.physorg.com/news106412981.html Space & Earth Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:09:41 EST news106412981 Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ones used for protecting Apollo astronauts as they returned to Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news166454521.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:23:44 EST news166454521 NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. The mission will send a next-generation rover with unprecedented research tools to study the early environmental history of Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news147618449.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:07:29 EST news147618449 (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 Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot. http://www.physorg.com/news156063467.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:58:17 EST news156063467 (PhysOrg.com) -- The widespread idea that Mars is red due to rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the red planet may be wrong. Recent laboratory studies show that the red dust may be formed by ongoing grinding of surface rocks and liquid water need not have played any significant role in the red dust formation process. These findings, which open up the debate about the history of water on Mars and whether it has ever been habitable, have been presented at the European Planetary Science Congress by Dr Jonathan Merrison. http://www.physorg.com/news172481192.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:26:56 EST news172481192 ESA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on 9 and 10 July in the Auditorium of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to discuss the next step in the exploration of Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news134212539.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:15:39 EST news134212539 NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos have agreed to fly two Russian scientific instruments on NASA spacecraft that will conduct unprecedented robotic missions to the moon and Mars. http://www.physorg.com/news110641489.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:44:49 EST news110641489