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The Skies of Mars: Real Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s 15-Year Mission
Get ready for a breathtaking journey through the skies of Mars with real aerial footage captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This incredible spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for 15 ...
NASA Flips a Mars Orbiter Upside Down – And Discovers a Hidden World
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...
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NASA Discovers Heart-Shaped Wonders on Mars
Impact Craters: Small meteoroids collide with Mars, revealing lighter sediment underneath and sculpting crater patterns that coincidentally resemble hearts. Erosion & Volcanism: Mesas and depressions, ...
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The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were captured
Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
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The first Mars close-up
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...
Fly Over The 'Grand Canyon' Of Mars In High-Resolution Orbiter Imagery
Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: ...
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Happy anniversary, Mariner 4! NASA probe got 1st-ever up-close look at Mars 60 years ago today
After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...