Hurdles Remain As Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Nears Red Planet
Artist rendering showing the Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter over the Martian landscape.
Image source: ABC News / AP / NASA
Orbiter over the Martian landscape.
Image source: ABC News / AP / NASA
An AP newswire article, via ABC News, reports that:
A NASA spacecraft bound for Mars is nearing the end of its seven-month journey, but still faces a white-knuckle arrival at a planet known for swallowing man-made probes, mission managers said Friday.More here.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, is on course to enter orbit around the Red Planet on March 10. If successful, it will spend the next two years photographing the planet and scouting for future landing sites.
The spacecraft is performing so well that engineers have canceled two final maneuvers to adjust its flight course in the last leg of the trip, said James Graf, project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
posted by Fergie @ 2/24/2006 07:23:00 PM
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