June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... the Beagle 2 industrial and scientific teams have been patiently screening images taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). HiRISE has been taking occasional pictures of the landing site in addition to pursuing its scientific...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
...instead relay any information back home via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) or Mars Odyssey, which pass overhead twice per martian day... “Just like successful CubeSat missions in low Earth orbit have enabled a wide variety of missions, success ...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... on the rim of Endeavour Crater were made using orbital spectroscopy from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on-board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). These areas were examined up-close by Opportunity. Geochemical...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
...the planet was monitored by both NASA’s Deep Space Network and it’s two orbiters; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter. However, because the final two minutes of the descent and landing...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... taken with the HiRISE instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) The vast resources in the inner Solar... for observation with Earth-bound telescopes. A dedicated reconnaissance mission would help assess the nature of these regions...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
...telemetry) in near-real-time relies on a new kind of relay capability added this past year to NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Engineers expect additional data to return to Earth directly through NASA’s Deep Space Network and two other ...
