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 ...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
...instead relay any information back home via the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) or Mars Odyssey, which pass overhead twice per martian.... “Just like successful CubeSat missions in low Earth orbit have enabled a wide variety of missions, success with...
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...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... the crater further using images from the big and powerful HiRISE camera stowed on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment) can take pictures that see features as small as a kitchen table, so this...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
..., during the Reinventing Space conference someone alerted me to imagery of Mars from the HiRISE camera - the High Resolution Imaging Experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. I am now planning to create a whole swath of paintings featuring the...
