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November 2, 2011
Using instruments including APL's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers now suggest that Martian environments with abundant liquid water on the surface existed only during short episodes. [more]
June 24, 2011
CRISM Principal Investigator Scott Murchie will be awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest honor that NASA bestows to an individual working outside the government, while the CRISM team will be awarded two NASA Public Service Group Achievement Awards. [more]
March 9, 2011
Some of Mars’ Missing Carbon Dioxide May Be Buried Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be. [more]
December 17, 2010
Science magazine just named “Water on Mars,” a discovery made possible in part by CRISM, as one of its 10 “Insights of the Decade.” [more]
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from CRISM as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments. [more]
October 31, 2010
Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone over three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. [more]
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