Magnificent Mars

[MidasKnight]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHkgtLgcSY&feature=youtu.be


" NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has clocked more than a decade of service at the Red Planet and has yielded scientific discoveries and magnificent views of a distant world. These images taken by MRO's HiRISE camera are not in true color because they include infrared information in order to be optimized for geological science."

 

[Jeff7]

The photos are quite impressive.

Big camera, and a big communications antenna. Yes, Mars has a communications satellite network too.

Wiki also has a nice comparison to previous spacecraft.
It seems they were expecting a lot more data traffic from this one.



Wow, this shows it clearly.
They originally were looking for 34 terabits.
Another graphic says that they're at 264 terabits returned so far.