Next week should see its first Mars orbiter - Yinghuo-1 - begin its journey to the Red Planet.

下周应该看到它的第一个火星轨道器——萤火1号开始其红色星球之旅。

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That failure, combined with the loss of the companion Mars orbiter, prompted NASA to cancel a 2001 lander mission.

这一失败，再加上失去伴侣火星轨道，促使美国宇航局决定取消2001年着陆任务。

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This image was generated the by Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA, an instrument that was aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

这张图片是由NASA得火星探测器上的火星轨道激光测高仪(MOLA)拍摄生成的。

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The orbiter could finally provide evidence about how methane on Mars is created and destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

"This analysis suggests that it is not very likely that the December 1999 Polar Lander will be found, " the Web site for the Mars Orbiter Camera concluded.

CNN: Mars Pathfinder enlisted in search for lost Polar Lander

The elevation measurements were collected by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, during the spring and summer of 1998.

BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

It has also scanned the surface of the planet using Mola (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter), which beams an infrared laser pulse towards the surface of the Red Planet 10 times a second.

BBC: New view of giant Martian volcano