HiRISE Camera Reveals Fresh Impact Craters on Mars

Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a ...

View Related Gallery » Observation of the strange features discovered by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO) at the southern edge of Acidalia Planitia on Mars. The main cluster of pits on the left side of the photo are ...

- Ice in a Chlorite-Bearing Escarpment in Northwest Hellas http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027758_1530 The image was captured at the beginning of southern spring, at a time period when south-facing escarpments still retain ices deposited during ...

Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of a hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971.While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts ...

Source: JPL press release Summary: Scientists have used date from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of the red planet. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images ...

Topics: pretty pictures, amateur image processing, Mars, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, mineralogy and petrology The American astronomer Carl Lampland once received an award from the British Royal Photographic Society for taking ...

Dan Johnston (left) is the new project manager for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. David Lehman (right) is the new project manager for NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. Both missions are managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, from a distance of about 6,800 km (about 4,200 miles). CREDIT: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Humanity's quest to send astronauts to Mars may get a boost ...

Topics: explaining science, Mars, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, geology, mineralogy and petrology I spent Thursday last week in two different flavors of water-on-Mars sessions. In the morning was a session on the mineralogy of Martian aqueous ...