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Bookmark or Share- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - WikipediaThe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ( MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as part of NASA 's Mars Exploration Program. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2005, at 11:43 UTC and reached Mars on March 10, 2006, at 21:24 UTC.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Overview - NASA Mars ExplorationMars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Overview. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2005, on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long periods of time. While other Mars missions have shown that water flowed across the surface in Mars' history, it remains a mystery whether water ...
- MRO Science HighlightsMars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed gullies that may have been etched by carbon dioxide (CO 2) frost. Its radar has detected evidence of CO 2 ice buried in layers at the Mars south pole. And the orbiter's high-resolution cameras have monitored interesting seasonal patterns of CO 2 appearing and disappearing on the surface. Seasonal spider ...
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Science@NASANASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is the second longest-lived spacecraft to orbit Mars, after 2001 Mars Odyssey. It has been studying the Red Planet since March 2006. The spacecraft collects and relays daily science and weather data.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Observes Changes - NASAImage credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been observing Mars in sharp detail for more than a decade, enabling it to document many types of changes, such as the way winds alter the appearance of this recent impact site.
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