2015 Event NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detects liquid water on Mars in the form of hydrated salts; the minerals are found along flow lines on steep slopes and tend to appear during 'warm' weather (above 10 degrees F , -23 degrees C) 2013 Event NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars 2013 Event NASA scientists achieve a first in laser communication when they successfully beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon 2009 Event The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS is launched by NASA to probe the Moon 2006 Event Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit 2005 Event Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches 1988 Event Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance 1964 Event U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany 1963 Event 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska 1960 Event U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane 1952 Event Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down 1943 Event Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
