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FILTER RESULTS ►Mars Colony: Asteroid Threat
No atmosphere to burn up the asteroids. A couple hundred per year. Recent images from NASA?s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest that Mars is bombarded with hundreds of cosmic impacts a year, forming craters that measure up at an average size of 12.8 feet. Show More Summary
HiRISE Mars camera reveals hundreds of impacts each year
Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across. Researchers...Show More Summary
Russian space enthusiasts may have found lost Soviet Mars lander
Russian space enthusiasts have pinpointed the resting place of what is believed to be the Soviet lander, Mars 3, which failed shortly after landing in 1971. Using images returned by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a crowdsourcing...Show More Summary
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Snaps Pics of What May Be 1971 Soviet Mars Lander
Back in 1971, the Soviet Union sent a spacecraft to Mars. The spacecraft was called the Mars 3 Lander and it touched down on the surface of the red planet and continued…
Did The US Mars Orbiter Just Find The Soviets' Mars 3 Lander?
According to the fresh news from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory there is a chance that four pieces of hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read more...
NASA Mars Orbiter images may show 1971 Soviet lander
Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four...Show More Summary
Parachute Blows in the Mars Wind
The parachute for the Mars Science Laboratory mission to Mars opened before launch. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech.. A newly released series of images snapped by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the Curiosity rover's parachute has been flapping in...
Used parachute on Mars flaps in the wind
Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.
Seen From Space: Curiosity’s Abandoned Parachute Still Flapping in the Wind on Mars
NASA's Mars machines continue to work in beautiful tandem as seen in this image, where the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera captured the changing conditions of the landing parachute that brought the Curiosity rover safely to the ground nine months...
Parachute on Mars Flaps in Wind
We've known for years there's wind on Mars, but now you can see it on film. A new set of photos shows the parachute that helped Curiosity rover safely land on Mars last August shifting in the wind
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped seven photos between Aug. Show More Summary
LRO's LAMP ultraviolet spectrograph observes mercury and hydrogen in GRAIL impact plumes
When NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft made their final descent for impact onto the Moon's surface last December, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's sophisticated payload was in position to observe the effects. As plumes of gas rose fromShow More Summary
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Landforms on Mars
This image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) flying onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.
Gully landforms like those in this image are found in many craters in the mid-latitudes of Mars. Changes in gullies were first...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Sunrise at Tycho Crater
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic sunrise view of Tycho crater. Tycho crater's central peak complex, shown here, is about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide, left to right (southeast to northwest in this view).
Tycho is one of the most...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sees GRAIL's lunar impact
NASA has released images and findings from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which witnessed the impact of NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) spacecraft as they struck the Moon near the North Pole in a controlled impact on Dec.17, 2012. Show More Summary
Astronomers scope out alien solar system in detail
Researchers say they've conducted the first reconnaissance of a distant planetary system, collecting the spectra of four red exoplanets which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth. read more
NASA Orbiter reveals evidence of Martian mega flood
While you may be aware of NASA's historic Curiosity mission (and the current problems it's facing), you might not have heard of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO. The craft has been in orbit around the Red Planet since 2006 and...Show More Summary
Ancient Water Channels of Mars --The Elysium Planitia in 3-D
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. The spacecraft took numerous images during the past few years that showed channels attributed...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Changing Seasons on Mars
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this series of false-color pictures of sand dunes in the north polar region of Mars. The area covered in each of the five panels is about...
Spring-fed lake spotted by UA Mars camera
NASA reports that researchers analyzing spectrometer data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, looking at the floor of McLaughlin Crate, found that the Martian crater may once have held a groundwater-fed lake. The Martian crater is 57 miles (92 kilometers) in diameter and 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep. Show More Summary
The thawing "dry ice" of Mars
An international team of researchers studying data beamed back by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have observed seasonal changes on far-northern sand dunes on the Red Planet caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide. read more
