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<div id="featuredBox"><div class="categoryBox"><div class="categoryName">What's New?</div><div class="itemTitle">Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April - 03/20/2013</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1449"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels In 3-D - 03/07/2013</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1436"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">BLOG: When The Sun Gets In The Way - 03/11/2013</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">How does spacecraft Navigation change when the sun gets in the way? Read the latest blog for more details. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/blogs/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowBlogs&BlogsID=275"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars - 01/24/2013</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1418"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake - 01/20/2013</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1413"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">A Winter Wonderland on Mars - 12/21/2012</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Fall and winter temperatures bring changes to Mars as the carbon dioxide atmosphere turns to dry ice frost that clings to the surface. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its powerful cameras and spectrometers to capture detailed pictures and measurements of wintry scenes of nature's beauty at work on the Red Planet. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/slideshows/awinterwonderlandonmars/"> >></A></div></div><div class="categoryBox"><div class="categoryName">Recent Videos</div><div class="itemTitle">What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal? - 03/20/2013</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=122"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Mars’ Whirling Dust Devil - 04/04/2012</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Animation of a skinny "dust devil" on the dust-covered Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=43"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Storm Chaser on Mars - 03/20/2012</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Catches a Twister in Action. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=42"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Mars in a Minute: Is Mars Really Red? - 11/10/2011</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">The Red Planet -- or is it? This video answers one of the most frequently asked questions about our planetary neighbor. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=29&a=2"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Possible Water Flows on Mars - 08/04/2011</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Mysterious features on slopes hint there could be water flows on Mars. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/videoarchive/#mro20110804"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Mars Exposed - 09/24/2009</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">How meteorites uncovered a Martian secret. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/videoarchive/#MRO_Mars_Exposed"> >></A></div></div><div class="categoryBox"><div class="categoryName">Where is the Orbiter?</div><div class="itemTitle">Where is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter?</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">View the <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/mission/whereismro/">simulated views</A> and computer generated images of where Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is now. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/mission/whereismro"> >></A></div></div><div class="categoryBox"><div class="categoryName">Fun</div><div class="itemTitle">Mars in The Palm of Your Hands</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Tune in with Mars on the go.Download the Be A Martian App, on your Android, iPhone, Windows Phone and Tablets! <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mobile/info/"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Come explore Mars with us!</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Be part of exploration and discovery, and personally contribute to the expansion of human knowledge for all of us now, and as a legacy for those who follow. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle"><br /><br />Mars Calendar 2013 - 2014</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">  <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/files/mep/2013-2014_MarsCalendar.pdf"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Eyes on the Solar System</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">"Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos, including Mars from your computer. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time. <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/"> >></A></div><div class="itemTitle">Pop Culture Mars</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Mars has remained in the human imagination, and not even the rise of science and technology has interrupted our wary fascination with this neighboring world. <A HREF="allaboutmars/mystique/"> >></A></div></div><div class="categoryBox"><div class="categoryName">Ask Dr. C</div><div class="itemTitle">Have you ever wondered why Mars is red?</div><div class="itemTeaserLessFormating">Or, how long does it take for Mars to orbit the sun? Ask Dr. C, your personal Mars expert! <A HREF="https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20130320211809/http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/drc/"> >></A></div></div>

What's New?

Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April - 03/20/2013

The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. >>

NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels In 3-D - 03/07/2013

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. >>

BLOG: When The Sun Gets In The Way - 03/11/2013

How does spacecraft Navigation change when the sun gets in the way? Read the latest blog for more details. >>

Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars - 01/24/2013

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide. >>

Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake - 01/20/2013

A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. >>

A Winter Wonderland on Mars - 12/21/2012

Fall and winter temperatures bring changes to Mars as the carbon dioxide atmosphere turns to dry ice frost that clings to the surface. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its powerful cameras and spectrometers to capture detailed pictures and measurements of wintry scenes of nature's beauty at work on the Red Planet. >>