…by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona In early 2019, NASA’s Martian lander InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) began…
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a “fresh” (on a geological scale, though quite old on a human…
Phobos imaged by HiRISE. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, with plans to have a sample from Mars’…
…find traces of life beyond the Earth, we should first look to Mars, as the environment there was once similar to the Earth,” Hyodo explains. Phobos imaged by HiRISE. Credit:…
…Options out of ‘Séítah’: This annotated overhead image from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) depicts three options for the agency’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter to take on…
…are, and thus what kinds of materials they’re made of. Phobos is about 157 times smaller than Earth’s Moon. Mars’ other moon, Deimos, is even smaller. Phobos imaged by HiRISE….
…from the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter’s THEMIS camera and the Mars Reconnaissance orbiter’s CTX and HiRISE instruments. Then, they deployed their citizen scientist project using the platform Zooniverse. Nearly 14,000…
…striped rocks, which look like a strip of bacon in images taken by the HiRISE orbiter. The rocks at Hogwallow Flats appear to be particularly fine-grained, which is exciting to…
…HRSC) and NASA/Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (CRISM and HiRISE) “The evolution from lots of water to no water is not as clear cut as we thought, the water didn’t just stop…
…image taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE camera) aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The cause of a Christmas Eve quake on Mars … Super…
…and MRO’s CTX, MARCI and HiRISE cameras, the international teams of the two NASA missions have been able to pinpoint the precise location of these two events in time and…
…and alabaster crystals. These microbes exude pigments that represent one possible biosignature on NASA’s Ladder of Life Detection. At Pajonales, drone flight imagery connected simulated orbital (HiRISE) data to ground…
A Relict Glacier near Mars’ Equator. (NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite). Credit: Pascal Lee The preservation of water ice at shallow depths and low latitudes on Mars…
…Gretel,” the researchers named their patent-pending concept the “Breadcrumb-Style Dynamically Deployed Communication Network” paradigm, or DDCN. A hole in the surface of Mars, spotted by the HiRISE camera, reveals a…
…volcano just north of Volund had fresh lava flows surrounding it,” said Jason Perry of the University of Arizona’s HiRISE Operations Center in Tucson. “Io is known for its extreme…
Image of the Terra Sirenum and its gullies captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona Using climate simulations,…
Image of the Terra Sirenum and its gullies captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona In a new…
…thin Martian atmosphere, causes CO2 ice to evaporate directly back to gas, again skipping the liquid phase. Satellite image of gully landscapes on Mars, taken by HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging…