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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Context Camera (CTX)

Launch: 12 August 2005 Mars Orbit Insertion: 10 March 2006 Status: Orbiting, imaging Mars

Photograph of the MRO Context Camera.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) is designed to obtain grayscale (black & white) images of Mars at 6 meters per pixel scale over a swath 30 kilometers wide. CTX provides context images for the MRO HiRISE and CRISM.


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