Showing posts with label Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Show all posts

Counting Impact Craters on Mars

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NASA has recently finished a study in which they determined the approximate number of asteroid and comet impacts on Mars every year. Using ...

Mars Photo of the Day - Dec 6 2012

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Today's Image of Mars shows defrosting dunes and gullies during late summer in Mars' southern hemisphere. Mars Reconnaissance Orb...

Mars Photo of the Day - Nov 27 2011

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Today's Image of Mars is of Deimos, the smaller and furthest of Mars' two moons. As you can see Deimos is lopsided, but it has an ...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 28 2011

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Today's Mars Photo was taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera and shows the floor of a large degraded crater. But w...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 21 2011

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Today's Mars Photo is of gullies in Avire Crater as taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. There is a large amount...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 16 2011

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Today's Mars Photo is of banded features imaged by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. No one is sure what cau...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 15 2011

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Today's Mars Photo was recently taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. The image shows an i mpact crater in  easte...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 13 2011

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Today's Mars Photo is of a crater in Nereidum Montes as taken by the CTX camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The crater has nu...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 2 2011

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Today's Mars Photo shows the path taken by Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity  in recent weeks. This photo was taken by Mars Reconnais...

Mars Photo of the Day - Sept 1 2011

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Today's Mars Photo is of of a large rock named Trailbraker  that is located in the vicinity of Odyssey Crater and the  Tisdale rock ...

Mars Photo of the Day - Aug 23 2011

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Today's Mars Photo is of the floor of Hellas Basin, as taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera on December 26, 2009. ...

Mars Photo of the Day - Aug 21 2011

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Today's Mars Photo was taken by Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera on Oct 3 2007. The image is of Earth and t...

Mars Photo of the Day - Aug 20 2011

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Today's Mars photo is of Santa Maria Crater. If you look closely enough you can see Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity  on the crater...

Mars Photo of the Day - Aug 18 2011

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Today's Mars photo is of a 'skylight,' or an opening to an underground cavern , located in a crater on the Pavonis Mons volca...

Mars Photo of the Day- Aug 5 2011

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The following series of images was taken from  early spring of one Mars year to mid-summer of the following year. They  show features on...
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Live Blogging NASA's News Briefing on Mars Orbiter Findings

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Summary of the News Briefing and Findings by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 1451 EDT The news briefing is over. 1450 EDT We have to as...