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Our next question comes from Junichi from Niihama City. Since the astronomy -- I'm sorry, since the atmosphere of Mars is not very dense,

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Not so much for spectrometers or radar, but clouds can get in the way and obscure the surface.

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is MRO going to observe the surface of Mars in high-resolution pictures, especially over the poles?

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Yes, we will. In fact, the fact that the atmosphere is not very dense actually helps us. The more atmosphere you have to look through,

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the more it can distort your images and other data. So, the fact that it's, it's less dense is a great thing in terms of looking at

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the surface. The other thing we have to worry about, really, in terms of the atmosphere are clouds.

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And certainly, for imagers, clouds would be a problem.

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