MRO Looking For Missing Mars Probes
Orbiter to Look for Lost-To-Mars Probes
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 01 November 2006
06:46 am ET
A super-powerful camera orbiting Mars may help discover the fate of long-lost spacecraft that never phoned home after reaching the red planet.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is now circling that puzzling world, equipped to assist in determining whether life ever arose on the red planet and characterize its climate and geology, as well as prepare for future expeditionary crews to land there.
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