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Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

Jun 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ...

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 ...

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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.

Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)

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Dec 11, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (17) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ‘wow’ ...

Astronaut balancing act: Training to help explorers adapt to a return to gravity

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

Astronauts returning from challenging long-duration missions face one more challenge when they get back to Earth - standing up and walking.

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.

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

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Dec 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...

Keeping Mars Contained

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Dec 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

When robotic spacecraft bring a sample of Mars back to Earth, scientists will need specially-designed facilities to study the samples and prevent them from escaping to the outside world.

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

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Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbite Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files

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Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(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.