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.... “Just like successful CubeSat missions in low Earth orbit have enabled a wide variety of missions, success with...
12 August 2015
The 10th Anniversary of NASA’s Mars Orbiter and the path to a manned Mars mission
...the Red Planet, as we love to refer to it, since it was first discovered. Some costly Mars projects have met with failure. But the success of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which celebrates a decade since its launch this week, brought us “closer...
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...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... the crater further using images from the big and powerful HiRISE camera stowed on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment) can take pictures that see features as small as a kitchen table, so this...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
..., during the Reinventing Space conference someone alerted me to imagery of Mars from the HiRISE camera - the High Resolution Imaging Experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. I am now planning to create a whole swath of paintings featuring the...
