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Storm-Chasing Orbiter Tracks Martian Weather
- 12/18/08
Like storm chasers on Earth, a NASA spacecraft spends time each day pursuing intense weather on Mars. Speeding along in orbit, it takes images of dust storms. Often, the storms are spiral like giant tornadoes on Earth.
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Scientists Find 'Missing' Mineral and Clues to Mars Mysteries
Researchers using a powerful instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found a long-sought-after mineral on the Martian surface and, with it, unexpected clues to the Red Planet's watery past.
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Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase of Science Mission
Among its accomplishments, the spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments.
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HiRISE Camera Captures High-Resolution 3-D Images of Mars
The team based at The University of Arizona today released 362 three-dimensional images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA Orbiter Finds Martian Rock Record With 10 Beats to the Bar
Climate cycles persisting for millions of years on ancient Mars left a record of rhythmic patterns in thick stacks of sedimentary rock layers, revealed in three-dimensional detail by a telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA Space Craft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
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