Revealing Mars (2006)

On August 12 2005 NASA launched Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter designed to explore the Red Planet from the orbit The MRO will make a more comprehensive inspection of Mars than any previous mission examining landscape details as small as a coffee table with the most powerful telescopic camera ever sent to orbit of a foreign planet This 47 min long documentary will walk you through the orbiters scientific payload illustrate how each instrument works and give you a sense of the highquality images and data these tools will produce by comparing them to tools used for the investigation of the atmosphere and geology of Earth