NASA To Launch Extreme Mars Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a spacecraft of many superlatives: Weighing two tons, it is capable of sending back ten times as much data per minute as previous craft; it carries the largest antenna ever developed for a planetary probe; it will photograph, from orbit, details as small as an office desk; and it is the first Martian spacecraft intended to scope out potential landing sites for future manned missions.

And that's only the beginning.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is currently in the final stages of preparation before launch.

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