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Next Mars Mission Will Look for Landing Sites

Posted by michael on from the beachhead dept.

fenimor writes "NASA's next mission to Mars to be launched on Aug. 10, 2005 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - will examine potential landing sites and provide a high-data-rate communications relay for for future surface missions. Weighing 2,180 kilograms, the spacecraft will be the largest ever to orbit Mars and with the largest telescopic camera ever sent into orbit around another planet, will reveal Mars surface features as small as a kitchen table."

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  1. Correct link.. by barawn · · Score: 4, Informative

    That story would be

    here, rather than the Cassini/Huygens probe story that was linked to.

    More proof that /.ers don't read the article, eh?