Mars Climate Orbiter Team Finds Likely Cause of Loss
Sep 30, 1999 · A failure to recognize and correct an error in a transfer of information between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in Colorado and the mission navigation team in …
NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter Believed to Be Lost
Sep 23, 1999 · NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter is believed to be lost due to a suspected navigation error. Early this morning at about 2 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time the orbiter fired its main engine …
1.2 Loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter Mission.....1 1.2.1 Investigation of the MCO Loss..................................................................................................................1
In Depth | Mars - NASA Solar System Exploration
Orbit and Rotation As Mars orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours, which is very similar to one day on Earth (23.9 hours). Martian days are called sols – short for "solar day."
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Preparing for Years Ahead
Feb 9, 2018 · Two instruments for studying the atmosphere -- the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) -- continue to build on nearly six Mars years (about 12 Earth …
The Value of Landed Meteorological Investigations on Mars: The …
Major advances in the understanding of the present and past Mars climate system are most likely to be accomplished by in situ meteorological surface measurements operating from both a …
Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice
Jan 11, 2018 · A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars …
60,000 Orbits for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
May 15, 2019 · NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. …
ii This work was sponsored by the Solar System Exploration Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
To find out if Mars could have been a habitat for life, Curiosity surveys the environment at Gale Crater and acquires rock, soil, and air samples for onboard analysis.