{"id":366,"date":"2010-03-03T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news-developments.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:39:14","slug":"mro-a-new-tech-mars-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2010\/03\/mro-a-new-tech-mars-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"MRO-A New Tech Mars Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA designed a multipurpose spacecraft MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) to study the features of the Mars. \u00a0It had to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from its orbit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was launched on 12<sup>th<\/sup> August, 2005 and attained Martian orbit on March 10, 2006. The major goals were to map the Martian landscape in order to choose landing sites for future surface missions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a multi gadget spacecraft, which contained various project related instruments:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>HIRISE (camera)<\/li>\n<li>CTX (camera)<\/li>\n<li>MARCI (camera)<\/li>\n<li>CRISM (spectrometer)<\/li>\n<li>MCS (spectrometer)<\/li>\n<li>SHARAD (radar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the help of all these vital instruments MRO succeeded to choose the landing sites for future surface missions, which were explored earlier in the Martian Arctic Green Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, this NASA\u2019s project showed:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Water ice in ice cap measured<\/li>\n<li>Ice exposed in new craters<\/li>\n<li>Lobate debris aprons are mostly water ice were discovered<\/li>\n<li>Most places on Mars show inverted relief<\/li>\n<li>Widespread deposits of chloride minerals were founded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related Readings:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2010\/03\/limit-solar-energy\/\">US And Canada Scientists Proposed To Limit Solar Energy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2010\/03\/nasa-launches-first-weather-mission-into-space\/\">NASA Launches First Weather Mission Into Space<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2008\/09\/sun-takes-a-nap\/\">Sun Takes a Nap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2008\/09\/stephen-hawking%e2%80%99s-new-time-piece\/\">Stephen Hawking\u2019s New Time Piece<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2008\/09\/methane-to-power-the-world-in-future\/\">Methane to Power the World In Future<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/2008\/10\/ancient-wonders-are-also-miraculous\/\">Ancient Wonders Are Also Miraculous<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA designed a multipurpose spacecraft MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) to study the features of the Mars. \u00a0It had to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from its orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-developments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}