The spacecraft is still orbiting Mars but at that time it was in an interim elliptical orbit.

BBC: By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

For instance, there is no clear linkage between the details in the plan and the space exploration goals and priorities established by the administration in terms of sending astronauts to an asteroid as an interim destination before sending humans to orbit and eventually to land on Mars.

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