CRISM Web Site

CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars)

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Olivine, Phyllosilicates, and Ancient Crater Rims

Phyllosilicates imaged along weathered crater rims suggests a possible origin for this clay-rich family of minerals.

June 24, 2010
A phase in the early history of Mars with conditions favorable to life occurred globally rather than just in the south, new findings from the north suggest. [more]

March 2010
CRISM data was featured in several presentations at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 1-5 in The Woodlands, Texas. [more]

All Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Updates

Read about the career paths that led members of the CRISM team into space exploration.

The MRO CRISM Spectral Library is an analysis tool for interpreting CRISM data. it currently contains 2,260 spectral analyses of 1,134 Mars-analog samples, all measured under desiccating conditions so that materials that adsorb water look as they would on Mars. This was made avaialble to the community through the PDS on the day that MRO entered Mars orbit!

Register Online for the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

View abstracts presented at the 2010 LPSC conference held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, The Woodlands, Texas, March 1–5, 2010.

Thousands of CRISM high-resolution images are available in easy-to-view format accessible through a searchable map. More are being added as they are converted from the full spectral data... [more]

June 2010
Approximately 100 students, teachers and scientists from across the country participating in the MESDT program wrapped up the program’s fourth successful year. [more]

CRISM View is a first-of-its-kind opportunity to watch Mars through the “eyes” of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) – as if you were riding along with it on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! [more]

CRISM has been supporting landing site selection for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission with hundreds of observations that have been converted to color and mineral indicator maps. [more]

As MRO flies over a given area, CRISM's scanning mechanism tracks a region on the surface and slowly sweeps the field of view across it.

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