used by the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It will also have a thermal infrared (TIR) radiometer comparable to the mini-Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) used by the ...

Or consider the Mars Climate Orbiter, a US$327 million NASA spacecraft that disintegrated upon entering Mars' atmosphere in 1999. Engineers at Lockheed Martin had used imperial units, while NASA ...

Or consider the Mars Climate Orbiter, a US$327 million NASA spacecraft that disintegrated upon entering Mars’ atmosphere in 1999. Engineers at Lockheed Martin had used imperial units ...

Captured by the Orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, the shot was taken on February 28 this ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover just made history with its first-ever mid-drive photo snapped from orbit, captured by the HiRISE ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, for example, has the Mars Climate Sounder, which has collected data on carbon dioxide snow — ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...

And in space, there’s no way to miss but spectacularly. That’s what happened to the Mars Climate Orbiter, which vanished in September 1999 as it prepared to enter Mars orbit because of a now ...

The Curiosity rover is heading to a region containing formations that were possibly made by groundwater billions of years ago ...

In 1999, for instance, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter disintegrated in the atmosphere—a failure later attributed to an engineering mismatch between metric and English units of measurements.