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Tag Archives: MCS
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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