15 December 2021
ExoMars discovers large amounts of hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
... water is observed in many spots on the martian surface by near infrared spectrometers from orbit, whereas water ice, the most abundant form of water deposits found on Mars, is generally detected at the planet’s frigid polar regions. Like Earth...
12 June 2015
Why impact glass on Mars is a major discovery
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has found deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Such deposits could provide us with more details on the possibility of past life on the Red Planet, said NASA. What makes impact glass special? It ...
11 November 2016
Beagle 2 Mars probe came close to success
... analysing them for signs of organic molecules associated with life in a miniaturised on-board laboratory. In 2014, Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) found Beagle 2 on the Martian surface. The spacecraft took pictures which seemed to indicate...
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
...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, a mineral...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) were initially analysed by Michael Croon of Trier, ... screening images taken by the HiRISE camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). HiRISE has been taking occasional pictures ...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
...-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 other Earth-based antennas until...
