The Mars probe ships data to Earth

MRO Mars probe

The Mars probe spacecraft of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), launched in August 2005, has passed half a 500 million-kilometer journey to Red Planet and has begun sending data. related to this planet to Earth at a speed of 6 megabits per second.

NASA scientists said the spacecraft, weighing 2 tons and equipped with the most advanced scientific equipment, will reach orbit around Mars in March 2006. This spacecraft, along with two spacecraft currently flying around Mars, will become a trio of Mars spacecraft.

Mars has a circumference 1.52 times greater than Earth and is the fourth planet near the Sun in the Solar System. Mars is like Earth in many places like the weather with four seasons, ice poles, an atmosphere of clouds, wind, sandstorms, a 24-hour long day . Due to the presence of an atmosphere relatively thick, many people believe that there can be life in Mars. On Mars also has the presence of many dry rivers, so many scientists are sure that in the past there was a time when water flowed on the surface of Mars. Mars has two natural satellites, Diemos and Phobos. ( According to Wikipedia ) The scientific equipment on the new explorer mission is to continue searching for evidence of the existence of water on Mars, photographing the locations expected to be the upcoming landing sites of robots and relay information from other explorers to Earth.

NASA hopes that thanks to the new remote imaging device, scientists will get the clearest picture of the iron surface of the Red planet, helping to study the planet in detail. So far only 2% of the tens of thousands of photos taken by explorer ships previously taken to the surface of Mars are considered to have high fidelity.

According to the design, the new Mars probe will operate until 2010. However, NASA scientists say that on-board fuel can extend the life of the vessel until 2014.