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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter


Launch of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Image 1:
An Atlas V launch vehicle, 19 stories tall with the two-ton spacecraft on top, roared away from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:43 a.m. PDT August 12, 2005. Its powerful first stage consumed about 200 tons of fuel and oxygen in just over four minutes, then dropped away to let the upper stage finish the job of putting the spacecraft on a path toward Mars. This was the first launch of an interplanetary mission on an Atlas V.

Image Credit: NASA
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Artist's Concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Image 2:
This artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter features the spacecraft's main bus facing down, toward the red planet. The large silver circular feature above the spacecraft bus is the high-gain antenna, the spacecraft's main means of communicating with both Earth and other spacecraft. The long, thin pole behind the bus is the SHARAD antenna.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA Mars Exploration Home Page





 
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