Projects: Mars Climate Sounder Team Website
Images and Data from Mars
Mars Climate Sounder Collects 20 Millionth
Sounding
March 10, 2008
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft this month is set to surpass the
record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft. While the
mission continues to produce data at record levels, engineers are examining
why two instruments are intermittently not performing entirely as planned.
Placing Mars Climate Sounder's scans into context at Mars
Update July 2, 2007
Data acquired October 1, 2006 and February 10, 2007
These two movies show how and where Mars Climate Sounder acquires its
data on the atmosphere of Mars. Because Mars turns
beneath the moving orbiter, each scan is taken while flying over a different
part of the planet. Two different movies show how Mars Climate Sounder's
scans have been affected by the adoption of a "limb staring" mode,
which allows the instrument to continue to take data as the problem with
its elevation actuator is still being worked on.
Millions of soundings yield clues to Mars' weather, but instrument errors
force team to pause operations
Update April 3, 2007
Data acquired October 6, 2006
Two months after the start of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's primary science
phase, the Mars Climate Sounder instrument has already acquired more than
four million soundings, building toward a vast data set on the three-dimensional
structure of Mars' atmosphere over the full Martian year of the orbiter's
nominal mission. However, an intermittent error has caused normal operations
of the instrument to be suspended.
Spacecraft Set to Reach Milestone, Reports Technical Glitches
February 7, 2007
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft this month is set to surpass the
record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft. While the
mission continues to produce data at record levels, engineers are examining
why two instruments are intermittently not performing entirely as planned.
Mars Climate Sounder Captures Views of Other Instruments
Data acquired March 24-25, 2006
A unique view of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's instrument deck against the
blackness of space from Mars Climate Sounder.
First Views of Mars
Data acquired March 24, 2006
The data for these images were captured just
two weeks after Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived in Mars orbit. The
spacecraft was 150 times farther from Mars than it would be in its nominal
science orbit, allowing Mars Climate Sounder to cover the whole globe of
Mars in four scans.
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