Tag: HiRISE
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MRO observes dormant InSight lander; collects data on Martian dust movements
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recently imaged NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) lander, which has been dormant on the Martian surface for two years. The new imagery highlights movements in Martian surface dust around InSight, providing planetary scientists with more information on Mars’s climate and atmospheric qualities. On Nov.…
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera spots Perseverance rover after landing
The HiRISE camera NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this picture of the Perseverance rover Feb. 24. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona A high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the Perseverance rover after landing on the Red Planet last month, showing the nuclear-powered robot sitting on the Martian surface with its supersonic parachute and…
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Scientists suggest streaks on Martian hillsides are dry flows
This inner slope of a Martian crater has several of the seasonal dark streaks called “recurrent slope lineae,” or RSL, that a November 2017 report interprets as granular flows, rather than darkening due to flowing water. The image is from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS Intermittent flows that appear on…
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First aerial color photo of Mars rover’s “hole-in-one” landing site
The bright landing platform left behind by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in 2004 is visible inside Eagle Crater, at upper right in this April 8, 2017, observation by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA has released the first high-resolution aerial color image of the Opportunity rover’s landing site on a sprawling…
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First aerial color photo of Mars rover’s “hole-in-one” landing site
The bright landing platform left behind by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in 2004 is visible inside Eagle Crater, at upper right in this April 8, 2017, observation by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA has released the first high-resolution aerial color image of the Opportunity rover’s landing site on a sprawling…
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Planet Earth observed through telescope orbiting Mars
Here is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separately for Earth and the moon to show details on both bodies. Relative sizes and distance are correct. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of…
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New images resolve finer details of Mars lander’s crash site
This Oct. 25, 2016, image shows the area where the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli test lander reached the surface of Mars, with magnified insets of three sites where components of the spacecraft hit the ground. At center-right is the main impact site of the Schiaparelli lander. The locations of the lander’s back shell and attached…
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NASA confirms intermittent water flows on Mars
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field. The imaging and topographical information in this processed, false-color view come from the…
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Lost Beagle 2 spacecraft found on Mars
Beagle 2 on the surface of Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image: HiRISE/NASA/University of Leicester. The UK’s Beagle 2 mission to Mars, which was lost in Christmas week 2003 during the final stages of its voyage to the red planet, has been rediscovered by NASA’s eagle eye in…