MRO’s HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT (HiRISE): SCIENCE EXPECTATIONS
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Introduction: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is expected to launch in August 2005, arrive at Mars in March 2006, and begin the primary science phase in November 2006. MRO will carry a suite of remote-sensing instruments and is designed to routinely point off-nadir to precisely target locations on Mars for high-resolution observations. The mission will have a much higher data return than any previous planetary mission, with 34 Tb of returned data expected in the first Mars year in the mapping orbit. The mapping orbit is nearly polar, 255 x 320 km above the surface, 12 orbits per day.
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