Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter By the Numbers
May 15, 2017
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars on March 10, 2006.
Over the past decade, the mission has shown how dynamic Mars remains today, as well as how diverse its past environmental conditions have been.
Here are some of the highlights of the last 13 years:
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed 60,000 orbits.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned 361 terabits of total science data to Earth - more than all other interplanetary missions combined, past and present.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has relayed 1 terabit of data from Mars surface missions.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has imaged 3 landed missions during their final descent.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken more than 378,000 images.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has scouted landing sites for 7 Mars missions.
