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Pada 3 Januari 2004, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Soul He’s starting to make history. It landed on the Red Planet for the first time, and started one of NASA’s longest and most successful missions – and only Earthling is helping us better understand the beautiful universe we live in.
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Soul He joined the twins Chance Three weeks later, explorers discovered the possibility of water on the planet as a result of rock testing. The Rover 2 landing site appears to have the same characteristics as the seabed.
The primary mission was supposed to last 90 Martian days, or 90 Mars days, but the rovers were so powerful that they orbited the planet for several years to gather data.
To give you an example of how much Soul Verbs, let’s talk. NASA is only meant to cover a distance of 600 meters, or 0.4 miles. Instead, he entered 7.73 km, Or 7.8 miles. As a result, NASA was able to collect tons of geological information about the planet, much more than expected. This mission is what allows humans to start dreaming about colonizing Mars.
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we have learned Lots. We know that Mars has dust devils just like we do on Earth. We can better map the surface of Mars, along with a better understanding of the types of material that make up each piece. It is an extraordinary mission in every sense of the word.
Unfortunately, on May 1, 2009, Soul I’m stuck in fine sand. This is not the first time this has happened on the mission, and the rover was able to serve as a static analysis tool for a while as NASA tried to figure out how to unravel it. This never happened. On January 26, 2010, NASA announced it would likely never be moved. Chance Keep exploring.
Only two months Then, Soul Stop sending to NASA. Fourteen months later, NASA announced that it was no longer trying to contact the rover, describing its mission as complete.
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