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Not only do we have two Rover's on Mars, we have the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It's doing pretty well for being 12 years old.
1 posted on 02/09/2018 10:52:22 AM PST by Voption
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It’s doing pretty well for being 12 years old.

Certainly being a child during Apollo missions I love space talk and a nice break from Lock Her Up....

Think about the technology on the Voyager mission and is that not still sending us signals? I could look it up but does anybody know?

Amazing!

Will we see the launch of the Mars mission in our life time?


2 posted on 02/09/2018 11:04:37 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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Ice on the lens?.................


3 posted on 02/09/2018 11:20:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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My brother-in-law is on the MRO team. This orbiter has way out-performed it’s design expectations. It has been a terrific piece of science technology. It also relays info from the rovers and other surface experiments back to earth. It will be interesting to hear him discuss this lens blurring issue. They will be “all over it.”


5 posted on 02/09/2018 11:40:21 AM PST by oldplayer
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John Batchelor might have something on this in his talkie tonight An amateur astronomer he usually keeps the last segment of his radio show to those developments.


6 posted on 02/09/2018 1:32:39 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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