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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 09 > Orbiter, finishing a mission, offers peek at Mars’ wrinkles

Orbiter, finishing a mission, offers peek at Mars’ wrinkles

By Kenneth Chang / The Bulletin
January 9, 2009

Last month, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter wrapped up its two-year primary science phase, and Mars geologists are wallowing in a bounty of data.

“Technically and scientifically, it has certainly met our expectations,” said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at....

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