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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 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.


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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode

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

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


Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

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created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur ...


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Mars Reconnaissance Orbite Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 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.


New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 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.


Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...


Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Matches Climate Cycles

Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Matches Climate Cycles

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings ...


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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: Preventive Care Continues; Science on Hold

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.


Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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 ...


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Mars Orbiter in Safe Mode Increases Communication Rate

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(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 ...


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Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 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 ...


Dust Storm Passing Over Spirit

Dust Storm Passing Over Spirit

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created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of ...


Oblique View of Victoria Crater

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Gets New View of Victoria Crater

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created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more ...


Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap

Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap

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created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 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.


NASA Phoenix Results Point to Martian Climate Cycles

Mars data published in Science this week

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.