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Mars Express After the failure of the Russian MARS-96 mission, the ...	Mars Global Surveyor The Mars Global Surveyor mission was decided after the loss ...
Mars Odyssey Initially, Mars Odyssey was to have been called Mars ...	Mars Polar Lander The Mars Polar Lander was the Mars Surveyor 98 lander for ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which cost $700 ...	Mars Sample Return The Mars Sample Return mission plans to send a probe into ...
Marsis radar Marsis is the first Japanese radar carried on board a Mars ...	Materialisation Materialisation occurred after the inflationary period when ...
Mean anomaly In Keplerian elliptical motion the mean anomaly is the ...	Mean coordinates Mean coordinates are coordinates relative to the equinox and ...
Mean ecliptic for the date The mean ecliptic for the date is the perpendicular plane at ...	Mean equatorial of the date The mean equatorial of the date is deduced from the true ...
Mean motion In Keplerian elliptical motion, mean motion is the angular ...	MEO orbit An MEO orbit is an intermediate orbit between low orbit and ...
Meridian This is an imaginary line joining the north and the south, ...	Meridian of a celestial body The meridian of a celestial body is a semi-great circle of ...
MERIS MERIS was taken on board the satellite Envisat. It is a wide ...	Messier 12 Messier 12 is a globular cluster discovered by Charles ...
Messier 82 Messier 82, also called "the cigar galaxy", is a ...	Metallicity Metallicity is the quantity or mass of atoms heavier than ...