NASA using Welsh to communicate on Mars mission [View all]

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http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/nasa-mars-mission-welsh-language-10074515

Stunning images from HiRISE Mars satellite mission are the first of their kind to be communicated in the Welsh language, NASA experts say.



Scientists at NASA are using the Welsh language to catalogue images sent back from a satellite mission to Mars.

HiRISE is a high resolution camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which is being used to take images of the Red Planet.

The multipurpose spacecraft was launched in August 2005 and reached Martian orbit seven months later joining five other spacecraft either in orbit or on the red planet’s surface.

Earlier this year Ari Espinoza, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson sought assistance to help Welsh-language resources of the Mars images.

Gwych! Cool!