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In 2005, NASA plans to launch the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This orbiting spacecraft will take the most powerful telescopic camera ever to another planet, plus five other scientific instruments.
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| Mars Global Surveyor
Launch: November 7, 1996
This orbiter has studied the entire martian surface, atmosphere and interior, and has returned more data about the red planet than all other previous Mars missions combined.
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| Mars Odyssey
Launch: April 7, 2001
Odyssey is an orbiting spacecraft designed to determine the makeup of the martian surface, to detect water and shallow buried ice, and to study the radiation environment.
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| Mars Exploration Rovers
First rover launch: June 10, 2003. Second rover launch: July 7, 2003
Two rovers, working on opposite sides of Mars, successfully completed their primary mission in April 2004. As of November 2004, both rovers are now in extended missions.
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| Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Launch: August 12, 2005NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will take the most powerful telescopic camera ever to another planet, plus five other scientific instruments.
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