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NASA shows off Mars spacecraft’s wildest images from across 15 years – CNET
A dust devil, an avalanche, a moon and a crater all made the cut of top Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images.
This false-color image shows rippling wind-blown dunes on Mars in 2009.
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This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet.
NASA’s Mars rovers might be glamorous attention-getters, but they have a quieter sibling in the martian skies.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) left Earth 15 years ago on Aug. 12. NASA celebrated the anniversary this week by highlighting some of the spacecraft’s finest images of the red planet.
Mars d…
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