Spaceflight Now | Destination Mars | NASA has Mars missions planned through decade: "NASA has Mars missions planned through decade
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: December 31, 2003"

The Mars Exploration Rovers represent the next step in an ambitious, on-going program to explore the Red Planet, to map out its structure, composition and meteorology and to determine whether it ever harbored life.

NASA plans to follow the 2003 rover missions with launch of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in August 2005, a 1,900-kilogram (4,200-pound) spacecraft loaded with nine state-of-the-art instruments and cameras that are "truly an order of magnitude beyond that which we've done with Odyssey and MGS," said James Garvin, NASA's chief Mars scientist.
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