NASA Mars Probe Completes 50,000th Red Planet Orbit

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NASA Mars Probe Completes 50,000th Red Planet Orbit
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | March 31, 2017 09:09am ET



NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has now circled the Red Planet 50,000 times.

The milestone came on Monday (March 27), about 11 years after MRO arrived at the Red Planet — and the spacecraft is still going strong, mission officials said.

http://www.livescience.com/58484-mars-probe-circles-planet-50000-times.html

[geronl]

some of these things last a lot longer than designed.