100,000 Images in, Mars Is Still Full of Surprises

See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA's groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its high-definition camera. It reveals a dark region of moving sand dunes.

A High-Resolution Camera Orbiting Mars Captured Its 100,000th Photo

The HiRISE camera inside NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured its 100,000th image, marking a momentous occasion for the nearly 20-year mission.

Camera on NASA Mars probe snaps its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet.

100,000 images in, Mars is still full of surprises

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying our the red planet for the last 20 years, beaming back images of its surface captured by its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which oversees Mars missions, shared the 100,000th image taken by HiRISE and posted it along […]

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps 100,000th image

A high school student suggested the steep sand dunes of Syrtis Major for the milestone image.

NASA's Mars Orbiter Hits a Major Milestone, Captures 100,000th Image

Nearly two decades ago, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) launched from Earth and began its long and winding journey to the Red Planet. Since landing in orbit over Mars in 2006, this spacecraft has quietly turned the way astronomers understand another planet on its head. On October 7, 2025, one of the instruments on board, [...]