Tag: MRO

Crowdsourcing Effort Likely Locates Lost Soviet Mars Lander
By 2013.04.13 0 Comments Read More →

Crowdsourcing Effort Likely Locates Lost Soviet Mars Lander

The history of human exploration, particularly in the age of sail, can be defined by one curious tendency.  Often the strongest motivation for launching a new expedition, was to find out just what happened to the last expedition.  And the one before that.  Somehow, the appeal just never fades. Likewise,  even the casual science fiction fan can attest […]

Posted in: Crowdsourcing Space Exploration, Mars, Russian Space
MRO Data Reveals A Once Deep, Cratered Lake on Mars
By 2013.01.21 0 Comments Read More →

MRO Data Reveals A Once Deep, Cratered Lake on Mars

Source: JPL Launched in 2005 aboard an Atlas V 401, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided a wealth of information regarding the presence of water ice on the Red Planet.  In an article   (abstract) published Sunday in Nature Geoscience,  a team of researchers analyzing  data from MRO’s CRISM instrument (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer), which was used to image […]

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