The Artificial satellite was launched on August 12 2005. Is the newest satellite launched into Mars Orbit, so it investigates the surface of the Mars to get news zones to land in the planet. "The Red planet", Mars is the planet more nearly of other planets. Nasa is interested to discover why the planet haven't got life in the surface and why now is a desert. The robots discovered frozen water in the poles and the sea in a past. Why all of these things disapeared¿ The newest satellite launched to Mars is "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter" whose objective is discover a lot of things about this.
The builder of the probe was Lockheed Martin, but if in the construction of the vessel was conducted by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientific instruments were made by Arizona State University, Johns Hopkins and the Italian Space Agency. The total cost of the ship MRO was $ 720 million dollars
The ship gets its power from solar panels 2, and have an estructure:
High resolution Camera: This visible camera can reveal small-scale objects in the debris blankets of mysterious gullies and details of geologic structure of canyons, craters, and layered deposits.
Context Camera (CTX):This camera will provide wide area views to help provide a context for high-resolution analysis of key spots on Mars provided by HiRISE and CRISM
Mars Color Image: This weather camera will monitor clouds and dust storms.
Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars: This instrument splits visible and near-infrared light of its images into hundreds of "colors" that identify minerals, especially those likely formed in the presence of water, in surface areas on Mars not much bigger than a football field.
Radiometer: This atmospheric profiler will detect vertical variations of temperature, dust, and water vapor concentrations in the Martian atmosphere.
This photo is an example of the resolution that have the (HRC)
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