Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Essays

  • Mars Exploration Rovers

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    Rovers discovered plenty of salts on Mars. Bright soil contains salts, including iron-bearing sulfates and light-colored soil mainly composed of silica are possibly originated from water. Deposits of closely pure silica in Gusev Crater may have developed when volcanic steam or hot water leached through the ground. These deposits found around hydrothermal vents are important for past habitability’s studies of Mars as Earth’s hydrothermal environments support microbial ecosystems. Both rovers found

  • Mars Opportunity Rover Case Study

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    these changes Obama needed to make cuts to other projects of NASA. 7. The Mars Opportunity Rover will be effected by the budget by being cut from funding. 8. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter would be another project that would be cut off. 9. The Commercial Crew Programme would also be cut from funding. 10. The Mars Rover and Lunar Orbiter could still operate, the mission was not cancelled but as soon as repairs are needed it cannot happen because there is no funding. 11. American are currently