low Mars orbit by mid-November. August 30, 2006: Aerobraking ended with a 6-minute burn of ''MROs Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM) thrusters. September 5, 2006: The first of two burns to correctly position MRO into its final science orbit was performed. September 11, 2006: The second of two burns to finalize MRO's orbit was performed, officially ending the Aerobraking Stage. Transition timeline September 16, 2006: SHARAD was successfully deployed from MRO. September 24, 2006: MCS and MARCI commenced operations, commencing a martian weather forecast. September 27, 2006: CRISM was powered on for the first time in space, and its lens cap was removed. In addition, SHARAD, HiRISE, and CTX were also powered on for the first time. September 28, 2006: CRISM took its first picture at Mars. Mission events September 29, 2006: All instruments will be tested from the science orbit. October 5, 2006: Instruments will be powered down for the Solar Conjunction. November 2006: Primary Science Phase (PSP) commences. May 25, 2008: HiRISE photographs Phoenix during its descent through the Martian atmosphere to a landing in Vastitas Borealis, making MRO the first probe to photograph another probe landing on the surface of another planet (not including the Moon). August 6, 2009: The spacecraft entered safe mode and switched to its backup computer. This is the third incident in 2009 and the seventh since launch. August 26, 2009: The spacecraft entered safe mode for the second time in August. The spacecraft is in communication with Earth and is being kept in this safe mode with scientific and rover communications relay activities discontinued while engineers study the data. December 8, 2009: The spacecraft is finally being taken out of safe mode that it has been in since August. The mission uploaded new software last week and plans to resume science operations once a check of all the science instruments is concluded in about a week. August 6, 2012: HiRISE photographs Curiosity during its descent through the Martian atmosphere to a landing in Gale crater. April 11, 2013: NASA announced that HiRISE may have achieved imaging the 1971 Soviet Mars 3 lander (and rover) hardware on the surface of Mars. On 2 December 1971, Mars 3 became the first spacecraft to attain soft landing on Mars and the second one on another planet, right after Venera 7, transmitting the first image data ever from Mars. Prior to that, amateur astronomers found what may