January 20, 2013
CRISM Shows Martian Crater May Have Once Held Groundwater-Fed Lake
Data from CRISM on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.
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November 2, 2011
Using instruments including APL's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers now suggest that Martian environments with abundant liquid water on the surface existed only during short episodes. [more]
June 24, 2011
CRISM Principal Investigator Scott Murchie will be awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest honor that NASA bestows to an individual working outside the government, while the CRISM team will be awarded two NASA Public Service Group Achievement Awards. [more]
March 9, 2011
Some of Mars Missing Carbon Dioxide May Be Buried Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be. [more]
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