Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft, launched August 12, 2005 to advance human understanding of Mars through detailed observation, to examine potential landing sites for future surface missions, and to provide a high-data-rate communications relay for those missions. It is intended to orbit for four years, and to become Mars' fourth active artificial satellite (joining Mars Express, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Global Surveyor), and its sixth active probe (the satellites plus the two Mars Exploration Rovers), in a historic scientific focus on the Red Planet.

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NASA - Spacecraft - August 12 - 2005 - Mars - Mars Express - Mars Odyssey - Mars Global Surveyor - Mars Exploration Rovers - Red Planet

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