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Tag Archives: Mars Climate Sounder
Mars CO2 ice cap throughout the martian year
This animation shows a side-by-side comparison of CO2 ice at the north (left) and south (right) Martian poles over the course of a typical year (two Earth years). This simulation isn’t based on photos; instead, the data used to create … Continue reading
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Tagged CO2 ice, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MCS, MRO, NASA, north polar ice cap, south polar ice cap, TES, Thermal Emission Spectrometer
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Opportunity: Dust storm going global, rover likely in deep-sleep for weeks until skies clear
[Ed. note: Video replay of the briefing here, and a new NASA web page, Mars Storm Watch, here.] NASA scientists reported today that dust in the skies over Opportunity is thicker than ever seen before from the surface, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, MARCI, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Color Imager, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Science Laboratory, MCS, MER, MRO, MSL, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, REMS, Rover Environmental Monitoring Station
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter preps aging hardware, instruments for extended operation
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade. The spacecraft already has worked more than double its planned mission life since launch in 2005. NASA … Continue reading
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Tagged Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, Context Camera, CRISM, CTX, HiRISE, igh Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MCS, MRO, MSSS, NASA, Shallow Radar, SHARAD, University of Arizona
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Hydrogen escape from atmosphere linked to global dust storms
Some Mars experts are eager and optimistic for a dust storm this year to grow so grand it darkens skies around the entire Red Planet. This biggest type of phenomenon in the environment of modern Mars could be examined as … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, dust storms, global dust storms, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MCO, MRO, water vapor
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Mars orbiters reveal seasonal dust storm pattern
After decades of research to discern seasonal patterns in Martian dust storms from images showing the dust, but the clearest pattern appears to be captured by measuring the temperature of the Red Planet’s atmosphere. For six recent Martian years, temperature … Continue reading
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Tagged Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Color Imager, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, TES, Thermal Emission Spectrometer
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