NASA shares mesmerising pictures of Mars clicked by its Reconnaissance orbiter

NASA, on August 13, shared some mesmerizing photographs of Mars clicked by one its orbiters. Posting photographs on Twitter, American ncy revealed that ims were captured by it’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which was launched 15 years ago with an aim to study red planet. Although orbiter carefully performed its task and analysed  red planet’s atmosphere, wear, subsurface water etc,  ncy said that it would always be remembered for ims sent by it’s HiRISE camera.

enchanting photographs have created quite a buzz on internet. Since shared earlier today y have racked up over 18 thousand likes and some exited comments. One user wrote, “I wish I could go re. Way more peaceful than here on earth." While ar wrote, “Beautiful". Yet ar wrote, " discovery of life on Mars, eir in form of ancient fossils or subterranean reservoirs, would be one of most momentous breakthroughs in human history."

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'Perseverance' on Mars

In ar news, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, which was launched last month, has also carried several essential instruments along with tree-like Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE). Moxie will be able to generate oxygen from carbon dioxide in Red Planet similar to trees on earth. If successful, Mpxie would be highly useful in future manned missions to build a biosphere that can support life. 

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and  Ingenuity helicopter that was lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 30 will land on Red Planet February 18, 2021, and will conduct its ‘main job’ of finding signs of ancient life along with collecting rock and soil samples for a possible return to Earth making it first rover for Astrobiology. entire duration of mission under NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is nearly 687 earth days that sums up one Mars year. 

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