The Pioneer project is a collaboration of many groups inside and outside NASA. In December 2014 and April 2015, Curiosity was photographed again by HiRISE inside Gale Crater. It captured an image via the HiRISE camera of the Curiosity rover descending with its backshell and supersonic parachute. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera is a 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) reflecting telescope, the largest ever carried on a deep space mission, and has a resolution of 1 microradian, or 0.3 m (1 ft 0 in) from an altitude of 300 km (190 mi). The Optical Navigation Camera images the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, against background stars to precisely determine MRO’s orbit. Observe Martian atmospheric processes at global scale and synoptically. In August 2023, electronic units within the HiRISE’s CCD RED4 sensor began to fail as well, and are causing visual artifacts in pictures taken. It has a 180-degree fisheye lens with the seven color filters bonded directly on a single CCD sensor.

In an effort to simplify previous implementations of computers on spacecraft, Mars Climate Orbiter featured a single computer using an IBM RAD6000 processor utilizing a POWER1 ISA capable of 5, 10 or 20 MHz operation. He described D-Wave’s computer as a hybrid, running applications on a traditional, digital computer and using a single quantum processor as an accelerator or coprocessor. Ka-band tests were also planned during the science phase, but during aerobraking a switch failed, limiting the X-band high gain antenna to a single amplifier. This option should be used with caution as having many visual cues coming at you at once, every single time, you use the menus might not be ideal. It also gathers planet-wide information about underground layers of regolith, rock, and ice that might be accessible from the surface. These new craters were found and dated by the CTX camera, and the identification of the ice was confirmed using CRISM. CTX is designed to provide context maps for the targeted observations of HiRISE and CRISM, and is also used to mosaic large areas of Mars, monitor a number of locations for changes over time, and to acquire stereo (3D) coverage of key regions and potential future landing sites.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. MRO cruised through interplanetary space for seven and a half months before reaching Mars. A stepping mechanism in the Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) skipped on multiple occasions resulting in a field of view that was slightly out of position. The Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) is a radiometer that looks both down and horizontally through the atmosphere in order to quantify the atmosphere’s vertical variations. On November 10, 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board released a Phase I report, detailing the suspected issues encountered with the loss of the spacecraft. After 58,000 hours of use, and limited signs of life, the orbiter switched over to a backup, which, as of 2018, has reached 52,000 hours of use. Completion of the orbital insertion placed the orbiter in a highly elliptical polar orbit with a period of approximately 35.5 hours.

Each battery has an energy storage capacity of 50 ampere hours (180 kC). Problems with blurring in pictures from HiRISE and battery degradation also arose in 2017 but have since been resolved. The instrument takes pictures 30 km (19 mi) wide and has enough internal memory to store an image 160 km (99 mi) long before loading it into the main computer. They are an important backup system to ensure that MRO can always be reached, even if its main antenna is pointed away from the Earth. The MRO takes around 29,000 images per year. It has also been specifically designed to minimize any vibrations on the spacecraft, so as to allow its instruments to take images without any distortions caused by vibrations. HiRISE collects images in three color bands, 400 to 600 nm (blue-green or B-G), 550 to 850 nm (red) and 800 to 1,000 nm (near infrared). It has one visible/near infrared channel (0.3 to 3.0 μm) and eight far infrared (12 to 50 μm) channels selected for the purpose. Python is considered as one of the most popular languages whose value has never been replaced to date.