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Carbon-Dioxide Frost Settling from Seasonal Outbursts on Mars (Movie)
Target: Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Spacecraft: Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) Instrument: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Size: 720 x 486 ID#: PIA10137 Added: 2007-12-11
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NASA's CRISM onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Mars' seasonal caps consist of frozen carbon dioxide mixed with smaller amounts of water ice frost and dust.
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New Spectrometer Begins its Global Map of Mars
Target: Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Spacecraft: Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) Instrument: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Size: 192 x 2700 ID#: PIA08788 Added: 2006-09-29
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The CRISM, a mineral mapping instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, began observing Mars after its lens cover was opened on Sept. 27, 2006.