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December 18, 2008
Scientists Find 'Missing' Mineral and New Mars Mysteries
CRISM team members at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco announce the discovery of intact bedrock layers of carbonate minerals on Mars--an important clue in resolving the mysteries of the Red Planet's watery past. [more]
December 11, 2008
Mars Orbiter Completes Prime Mission
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. The spacecraft has found signs of a complex Martian history of climate change that produced a diversity of past watery environments. [more]
December 4, 2008
NASA Orbiter Finds Martian Rock Record With 10 Beats to the Bar
Researchers using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera report the first measurement of a periodic signal in the rocks of Mars. This pushes climate-cycle fingerprints much earlier in Mars' history than more recent rhythms seen in Martian ice layers. It also may rekindle debates about some patterns of rock layering on Earth. [more]
November 26, 2008
JPL to Host Public Presentation on MRO Images and Findings
CRISM Principal Investigator Scott Murchie will speak Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Jet Propulstion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Murchie and other members of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s team will discuss the spacecraft’s successful primary science phase. [more]
November 19, 2008
Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing
Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory. [more]
November 18, 2008
NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover
NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation Studios, will conduct a naming contest for its car-sized Mars Science Laboratory rover that is scheduled for launch in 2009.
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October 28, 2008
NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
Using CRISM, researchers have observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discovery suggests that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a billion years later than scientists believed, and it played an important role in shaping the planet's surface and possibly hosting life. [more]
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