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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
March 26, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
May 29, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 15, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 6, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 2, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
April 20, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
June 16, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 20, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
August 23, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 24, 2023. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed Curiosity (pictured) as it landed on Mars?
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Lee, S.W.; Skulsky, E.D.; Chapel, J.; Cwynar, D.; Gehling, R.; Delamere, A. (2003). "Mars reconnaissance orbiter design approach for high-resolution surface imaging". Advances in the Astronautical Sciences. 113: 509–528.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle talk 20:01, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The Curiosity rover during atmospheric entry.

... that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed Curiosity (pictured) as it was landing on Mars? Source: [1]
- Reviewed: N/A (first DYK)

Improved to Good Article status by ARandomName123 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:24, 28 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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Overall: The image is not used in either article and WP:DYKIMG requires it to be used Jupitus Smart 12:29, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jupitus Smart: The image is the second image in the "Timeline" section. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 15:27, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@ARandomName123: Apologies for having missed that. This is good to go and congrats on your first DYK. Jupitus Smart 15:48, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 18:07, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

More on Mars Climate Sounder

Mars Climate Sounder instrument does not have its own article, so more details would be nice here, eg. mass, how long it collected data, what did we learn from its data ? - Rod57 (talk) 10:16, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If no one else does it first, I'll take a shot at adding those details after the end of February. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 16:45, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rod57:

Done in Special:diff/1232045285. Sorry for the delay! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 17:15, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ARandomName123, thanks. - Rod57 (talk) 17:48, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questions from a kid

Has the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter landed before?

When did it reach Mars?

How long has it been on Mars?

Who made this Orbit? 50.106.91.66 (talk) 13:43, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, all of these questions are probably answered in the article, but since I'm here, I might as well answer them.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an orbiter, which means it is designed to orbit around a planet, not land on it.

It reached Mars orbit on March 10, 2006, and has been in Mars orbit since then (18 years, 3 months and 19 days).

NASA created the MRO, and was responsible to navigating it to the correct orbit.

Hope this was helpful, ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 15:26, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]