Artist's rendering, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">NASA</a>, of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" class="extiw" title="w:Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter</a></i> spacecraft, in mission configuration. The spacecraft spent its prime mission in orbit around Mars, with its main objectives concerning more detailed and specialised studies of the planet with a high resolution photographic instrument (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiRISE" class="extiw" title="w:HiRISE">HiRISE</a>), and a suite of new-generation improvements upon instruments aboard predecessor missions such as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey" class="extiw" title="w:2001 Mars Odyssey">2001 Mars Odyssey</a></i>.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)</a>
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