Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Red Planet Orbit
Artist's concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in orbit at Mars.
Image source: NASA / JPL
Image source: NASA / JPL
Via NASA/JPL.
With a crucially timed firing of its main engines today, NASA's new mission to Mars successfully put itself into orbit around the red planet.More here.
The spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, will provide more science data than all previous Mars missions combined.
Signals received from the spacecraft at 2:16 p.m. Pacific Time after it emerged from its first pass behind Mars set off cheers and applause in control rooms at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
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