NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes 40,000 Mars Orbits

Launched in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has now orbited the Red Planet more than 40,000 times. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone of 40,000 orbits on February 7, 2015, in its ninth year of returning information about the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, from equatorial to polar latitudes. The mission’s potent […]
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