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Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(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.
Mars orbiter enters safe mode after disturbance
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Jun 05, 2009 |
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NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Preventive Care Continues; Science on Hold
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Sep 04, 2009 |
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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.
New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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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.
Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again
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Aug 27, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Mars Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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(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.
Mars Orbiter in Safe Mode Increases Communication Rate
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Aug 31, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Mars Orbiter Puts Itself into Precautionary Mode
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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(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.
Camera on Mars Orbiter Snaps Phoenix During Landing
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May 27, 2008 |
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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.
Rocky Mesas of Nilosyrtis Mensae, Mars
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May 06, 2008 |
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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).
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope to focus on Mars
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Mar 24, 2009 |
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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.
Fourth orbiter to arrive at Mars on Friday
Mar 06, 2006 |
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is approaching Mars and, if maneuvers go well, will join three other Earth spacecraft in orbit around the planet.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbite Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files
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Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plans to uplink protective files to the spacecraft next week as one step toward resuming the orbiter's research and relay activities.
Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase of Science Mission
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity ...
