The Mars Orbiter Camera and Mars Observer Camera (MOC) were scientific instruments on board the Mars Observer and Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The...
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as...
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Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24...
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stage, each consisting of an orbiter and an attached lander. After the Mars 2 lander crashed on the Martian surface, the Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft...
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The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian...
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The Mars monolith is a rectangular object, possibly a boulder, discovered on the surface of Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it...
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The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) operated by Malin Space Science Systems – The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), originally known as Mars Observer Camera, used...
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use the Optical Navigation Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to search for small moons, dust rings, and old orbiters. Solar System portal Spaceflight...
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Malin Space Science Systems (category Missions to Mars)
the main camera for Mars Global Surveyor. They also developed the cameras that were carried on Mars Polar Lander, Mars Climate Orbiter, 2001 Mars Odyssey...
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portal Exploration of Mars List of Mars orbiters List of missions to Mars Mars Express Orbiter – European orbiter mission to Mars (2003–present)Pages displaying...
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Tianwen-1 (redirect from Mars Global Remote Sensing Orbiter)
sent a robotic spacecraft to Mars, consisting of 6 spacecraft: an orbiter, two deployable cameras, lander, remote camera, and the Zhurong rover. The spacecraft...
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Stereo Camera (HRSC) is a camera experiment on Mars Express. A version for Earth called HRSC-AX was also developed, as was a version for Mars 96. It has...
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atmosphere and axial tilt). Mars lacks oceans, a source of much interannual variation on Earth.[clarification needed] Mars Orbiter Camera data beginning in March...
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Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the Mars Express probe and the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on board NASA's Mars Global Surveyor it has been possible to...
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Push broom scanner (redirect from Pushbroom camera)
spacecraft cameras using push broom imagers include Mars Express's High Resolution Stereo Camera, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera NAC, Mars Global Surveyor's...
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The satellites of Mars include : Non functional but (probably) orbiting: Viking 1 & 2 orbiter Mariner 9 Mars Global Surveyor Mars 2, 3, 5 Phobos 2 Tianwen...
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orbits of Earth and Mars brought them closer than they had been in about 60,000 years. Mars Express consists of two parts, the Mars Express Orbiter and...
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to narrow down those minerals. Mars Global Surveyor Launched in 1996, it used the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter, and Thermal Emission...
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Viking program (redirect from Viking Orbiter)
parts: an orbiter which photographed the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander which studied the planet from the surface. The orbiters also served...
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The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) was a cancelled Mars mission that was originally intended to launch in 2009 and would have established an Interplanetary...
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19 May 1971. The Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions consisted of identical spacecraft, each with an orbiter and an attached lander. The orbiter is identical to...
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Martian dust devils (category Geology of Mars)
S. (29 January 2019). "Martian Dust Devils Observed by Mars Colour Camera Onboard Mars Orbiter Mission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19...
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currently in the primary phase with Orbiter missions. There has been a single mission so far that deployed an orbiter around the planet which later lost...
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serve a different purpose than orbital spacecraft like Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. A more recent development is the Mars helicopter. As of May 2021[update]...
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of the 1985–2006 Mars Orbiter Camera science investigation". The Mars Journal. 5: 1–60. Bibcode:2010IJMSE...5....1M. doi:10.1555/mars.2010.0001. S2CID 128873687...
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are seven orbiters surveying the planet: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, the Trace Gas Orbiter, the Hope Mars Mission,...
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transferred using its Mars Relay antenna and Mars Orbiter Camera's memory buffer of 12 MB). Since MRO went into orbit around Mars, the landers have also...
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Viking 2 (category Missions to Mars)
and a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking 2 Orbiter began returning global images of Mars prior to orbit insertion. The orbiter was inserted into a 1,500...
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spacecraft orbiting Mars whose location is not known precisely. There is a proposal to use the Optical Navigation Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to...
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known as slope streaks has been uncovered by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. These features appear on crater walls and other slopes...
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