27 May 2016
Scientists reveal Mars is emerging from an ice age
...NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), reveal that the mostly dry, dusty planet is emerging from an ice age, that ended about 400,000 years ago. Models have suggested that Mars...retreat and regrowth of polar ice on Mars is due to the increased tilt ...
27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
... ice depository. Found by data gathered by the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that can peek up to 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) beneath the surface of Mars, this new find adds to the growing water budget concealed...
14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... subsurface ice or permafrost. Past studies by scientists using SHARAD, which stands for SHAllow RADar, onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have suggested that a volume of water ice around 1.2 times the volume of Lake Superior in the US could...
11 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 ...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... more than a decade ago after contact with Beagle 2 was lost. Images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) were initially analysed by Michael Croon of Trier, Germany, a former member of ESA...
11 November 2016
Beagle 2 Mars probe came close to success
... 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 that the...
