Rocky Mesas of Nilosyrtis Mensae, Mars

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May 06, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (7) | 0

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).

New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

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Oct 08, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

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.

Mars orbiter enters safe mode after disturbance

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Jun 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 4

NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle.

Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again

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Aug 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode

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Dec 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August.

Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap

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Aug 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

(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 equipment is field-tested in Norway

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Aug 15, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

An international group of space scientists and engineers are in Svalbard, Norway, field-testing instruments for future Mars missions.

Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover

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Jul 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

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 ...

Next NASA Mars Mission Rescheduled for 2011

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Dec 04, 2008 | 4 / 5 (6) | 0

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 ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

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Dec 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.

Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully

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Mar 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 ...

It's a grind to make Mars red

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Sep 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 2

(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 ...

Mars Sample Return: The next step in exploring the Red Planet

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Jul 02, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 0

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 ...

NASA Spacecraft to Carry Russian Science Instruments

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Oct 03, 2007 | not rated yet | 0

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.