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A powerful NASA orbiter launched in 2005 that has revolutionized our understanding of Mars through its high-resolution cameras and science instruments, capturing detailed images of the surface and helping identify potential landing sites for future missions.
organization | NASA |
orbital regime | Inner System |
learn more | Wikipedia |
launched | 2005-08-12 |
launch mass | 2,180 kg |
power | 2,000 watts |
August 12, 2005 at 11:43 UTC
Orbiter
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully entered Mars orbit on March 10, 2006, beginning a mission to study the planet's geology and climate that continues to this day, capturing high-resolution images of the surface and helping identify potential landing sites for future missions.
A very distant trans-Neptunian object discovered in 2018, located about 132 AU from the Sun, making it one of the most remote known natural objects in the Solar System at the time of its discovery.
A scorching hot rocky planet with thick clouds of sulfuric acid, crushing atmospheric pressure 90 times that of Earth, and a surface hot enough to melt lead due to a runaway greenhouse effect.
The space observatory launched in 1995 has revolutionized our understanding of the Sun through continuous monitoring of solar activity, coronal mass ejections, and the solar wind, while discovering over 4,000 comets during its ongoing mission.
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