The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an interstellar comet was in a viewing geometry that kept Earth-based telescopes too ...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — with a $40 million camera created by UA scientists — is set to enter the red planet's orbit Friday afternoon after a 7-month journey. The mission will seek to ...
The HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can take interesting astronomical pictures, team scientists report today. The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) based at the ...