Washington, Dec 12 : NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year prime mission on the red Planet, during which it found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments.
The orbiter has returned 73 terabits of science data, more than all earlier Mars missions combined.
The spacecraft will build on this record as it continues to examine Mars in unprecedented detail during its next two-year phase of science operations.