NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips For Mars Rover

San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 31, 2010 NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. Researchers are using a mineral-mapping instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to help the rover investigate a large ancient crater called Endeavour. The orbiter’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (

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