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...difficult for observation with Earth-bound telescopes. A dedicated reconnaissance mission would help assess the nature of these regions ...
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
...: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Previous observations of the Bagnold Dunes with the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have also indicated that mineral composition is not evenly distributed in the dunes. Olivine...
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...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... (called 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...
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
Space for art
... solar system NASA’s Mars exploration programme seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Missions like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, among many others...
