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BBC: Europe Mars Shot Looks to Upgrade

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Fri, 03/17/2006 - 2:00am

The Europeans are looking to upgrade their ExoMars lander to include an orbiter that would be used to communicate back to Earth. Not including the orbiter would force the lander to rely on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will already be used to ferry messages from America's own Mars Science Laboratory. Read the full story.