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The most data-productive spacecraft yet, the NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet.

MRO’s Context Camera (CTX) exploits a sweet spot in the balance between resolution and image file size. With a resolution of about 20 feet (6 meters) per pixel in images of the Martian surface, it has provided a library of images now covering 99.1 percent of Mars. That is approximately equivalent to the land area of Earth. No other camera ever sent to Mars has photographed so much of the planet in such high resolution.

All credits go to NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

More information at: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/prolific-mars-orbiter-completes-50000-orbits

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Rings of Saturn taken by Cassini. 

Credits: NASA/JPL 

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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been observing Mars since 2006, enabling it to document many types of changes, such as the way winds alter the appearance of this recent impact site. The orbiter's HiRISE camera took the four images used in this animated sequence in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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Artistic interpretation by Birgit Vredenburg of images from Mars from NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Image created by B. Vredenburg.

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By B. Vredenburg

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Artistic interpretation by Birgit Vredenburg of images from the stills from the Mars expedition in Utah.

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Clouds drift across the sky above a Martian horizon in this accelerated sequence of enhanced images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. 

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The ‘astronaut’ was a defunct spacesuit dubbed SuitSat-1 launched in 2006. The suit contained three batteries, a radio transmitter and internal sensors. It broadcast transmissions in six languages to amateur radio operators around the world before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere    

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Training Simulator

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Artistic interpretation by Birgit Vredenburg. Little rover moving along the Martian ice clouds.

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NASA’s Sojourner rover in action on Mars almost 20 years ago.