Sentences with phrase «nasa orbiter»

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In January this year, it was announced that the lander had been identified in images taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2013; these showed the lander as a glinting object, just a few pixels wide, about 5 km from the intended touchdown site.

The work of the 12 shortlisted artists ranges from the almost humble (Saski Groneberg's Büropflanz, a series of black and white still lifes of plants that decorate otherwise glumly functional offices) to the cosmic (Thomas Ruff's series, ma.r.s, which comprises digitally compressed and colourised riffs on images transmitted from Mars by Nasa's Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft).