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A pet-peeve of mine. While NASA made everyone holding their breath with overpriced RC rovers that scratched a few rocks, ESA had launched a boring orbiter that

by Iv 10y ago

A pet-peeve of mine. While NASA made everyone holding their breath with overpriced RC rovers that scratched a few rocks, ESA had launched a boring orbiter that "just" gave a map of the water concentration on Mars ( http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RrgXNFu0ocA/Sg_ldzogLlI/AAAAAAAAAEM/dnAYhoC5q_0/s1600/H2Omap.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RrgXNFu0ocA/Sg_ldzogLlI/AAAAAAAAAE... ) <- I had to dig through a PPT to find that map on slide 20.

gghh 10y ago
Which mission is that data from?
- mturmon 10y ago
  Probably from Mars Express (2004). The analogous NASA orbiters are MGS (1997), and later, MRO (2005 -- http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/ http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/).