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Tag Archives: CRISM
CRISM: Ice on rim of crater on Alba Mons
Alba Mons is the largest volcano, by area, on Mars. A low-lying volcano in the northern Tharsis region, Alba Mons has an elevation of 6.8 km, and volcanic flow fields that extend at least 1,350 km from the summit. Alba … Continue reading
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Tagged Alba Patera, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, ice, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, Neutron Spectrometer, volcanics
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HiRISE: Prospecting from orbit
The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images, as well as compositional data from near-infrared spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the geology of Mars. Beginning with the OMEGA instrument on the European … Continue reading
CRISM: Evidence of aqueous alteration near Mawrth Vallis
CRISM image 21BCB covers a region on the boundary of Chryse Planita, between Mawrth Vallis and Oyama crater. Chryse Planitia is a smooth circular 1600 km diameter plain that was a landing site for the U.S Viking 1 (landed July … Continue reading
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Tagged Chryse Planitia, clay minerals, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mawrth Vallis, MRO, NASA, Oyama Crater, phyllosilicates
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CRISM: Delta in Jezero Crater
Jezero Crater is a ~45km crater near the Nili Fossae region which is believed to have once been flooded with water. The crater consists of a fan-delta system that deposited rich clays in the area. An important detail for us … Continue reading
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Tagged Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, deltas, Jezero Crater, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA
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CRISM: Clays near Mawth Vallis
Mawrth Vallis is an ancient Mars river channel (~15km wide) located along the crustal dichotomy boundary that exposes abundant light-toned layers of clay-rich rocks. Indicative of aqueous alteration, these clays may have been deposited during massive flooding events or in … Continue reading
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Tagged clays, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mawrth Vallis, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates
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Opportunity: York target, post-brushing
Sol 4112, June 22, 2016. Opportunity is currently in the middle of one of the clay mineral areas spotted from orbit by the CRISM spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The target area the rover is examining is dubbed York, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, clay minerals, CRISM, Endeavour Crater, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MER, MRO, NASA, Opportunity, phyllosilicates, York
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Rise and fall of Martian lakes
There is a wealth of evidence, collected over the past few decades, suggesting liquid water was abundant in the early history of Mars. However, the size, evolution, and duration of standing bodies of water such as lakes on Mars’ surface … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantis Chaos, Caralis Chaos, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, Context Camera, CRISM, CTX, DLR, Eridania Lake, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HiRISE, HRSC, lakes, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MEX, MRO, NASA, open-basin lakes, Simois Colles, University of Arizona
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Mineral clues to subglacial volcanos in Sisyphi Montes
Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today, new evidence from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests. The research about these volcanoes helps show there was extensive … Continue reading
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Tagged Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, glaciers, LPSC 2016, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, Sisyphi Cavi, subglacial volcanos, volcanics, volcanos
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RSLs are caused by flows of liquid brines
New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen … Continue reading
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Tagged calcium perchlorate, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, magnesium chlorate, magnesium perchlorate, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, perchlorates, recurring slope lineae, RSL
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Tallying up where the Martian carbon went
Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today. A new analysis of the largest known deposit of carbonate minerals … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, carbonate minerals, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, Nili Fossae, TES, THEMIS, Thermal Emission Imaging System, Thermal Emission Spectrometer, valley networks
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