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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.

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. [more]

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]

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!

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]

November 2008
CRISM's Primary Science Phase Ends
November 20, 2008, marked the end of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (MRO's) primary science phase. After one Mars year and one Mars month (two Earth years) of successful operations, CRISM Principal Investigator Scott Murchie shares his thoughts on the mission so far. [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]

MRO's primary science phase runs from November 2006 to November 2008.

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