March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
..., taken with the HiRISE instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) The vast resources in the inner...difficult for observation with Earth-bound telescopes. A dedicated reconnaissance mission would help assess the nature of these regions ...
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
...: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Previous observations of the Bagnold Dunes with the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have also indicated that mineral composition is not evenly distributed in the dunes. Olivine...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... the Beagle 2 industrial and scientific teams have been patiently screening images taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). HiRISE has been taking occasional pictures of the landing site in addition to pursuing its scientific...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... (called telemetry) in near-real-time relies on a new kind of relay capability added this past year to NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Engineers expect additional data to return to Earth directly through NASA’s Deep Space Network and two...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... were somewhat random and occurred not only along the orbit that each planet swept but also in their polar...craters were once filled by water. However, high-resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images clearly show that lava flows from Tyrrhenum Mons ...
12 August 2015
The 10th Anniversary of NASA’s Mars Orbiter and the path to a manned Mars mission
...the Red Planet, as we love to refer to it, since it was first discovered. Some costly Mars projects have met with failure. But the success of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which celebrates a decade since its launch this week, brought us “closer...
