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Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind
04.03.13 - Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.
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NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-D
03.07.13 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface.
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Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars
01.24.13 - Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide.
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Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake
01.20.13 - A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.
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Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars
12.05.12 - Pictures from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show scars on the surface of the Red Planet where discarded pieces of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft hit the ground.
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Regional Dust Storm Dissipating
11.27.12 - A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global.
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Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm
11.21.12 - A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mars.
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NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars
09.11.12 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars.
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NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes
05.09.12 - MRO has revealed that movement in Mars' sand dune fields occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.
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12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught in Act
04.04.12 - A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14.
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NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action
03.07.12 - A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in a new image from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers
02.08.12 - New color images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the agency's 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander and the lander that carried its rover Spirit to Mars in 2004.
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Photo From NASA Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork
01.25.12 - Martian dunes and sand ripples of mixed shapes and sizes form a striking pattern in a recent image from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images
11.17.11 - It's now easier than ever to explore Mars in the great detail offered by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion
11.17.11 - Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards.
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NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground
11.02.11 - A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.
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Orbiter Resumes Use of Camera
09.08.11 - Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks.
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NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars
08.04.11 - Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.
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NASA Announces News Briefing on Mars Orbiter Science Finding
08.03.11 - NASA will host a news briefing on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) about a significant new Mars science finding.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Big Changes in Mars' Atmosphere
04.21.11 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered the total amount of atmosphere on Mars changes dramatically as the tilt of the planet's axis varies.