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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. Kitchen tables!! by wakejagr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, there are kitchen tables on Mars? WTF? Isn't *that* proof of life?!?!?

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    1. Re:Kitchen tables!! by Max+von+H. · · Score: 5, Funny

      Congrats, you just made me spill beer!

      Don't you just love all those funky measurement units americans spew in press releases? Volkswagens (haven't seen one in ages, how big is it again?), Rhode Island, Libraries of Congress and now freakin' kitchen tables. What's next, chevettes, twinkies, W's IQ (only for negative values)?

      come_ON_!

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