New evidence of groundwater-fed lake on Mars
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Diagram of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA)
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its Shallow Radar (SHARAD) (Image: NASA/JPL)
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument for probing beneath the surface of Mars (image: NASA/JPL)
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA/JPL)
Artist's concept showing how the MRO’s instruments study water on Mars (Image: NASA/JPL)
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter during its Mars Orbit Insertion process (Image: NASA/JPL)
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its the Mars Climate Sounder (Image: NASA/JPL)
Comparison of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its predecessors, Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey (Image: NASA/JPL)
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in its aerobraking stage (Image: NASA/JPL)
Comparison of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s data return capacity with that of its predecessors (Image: NASA/JPL)
Artist’s concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it orbits over the Martian poles (Image: (NASA/JPL)
Layers with carbonates inside McLaughlin Crater on Mars (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)
Article Summary
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found new evidence of a wet underground environment that once existed on the Red Planet. Using its Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), the orbiter examined the floor of McLaughlin Crater in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet and found evidence of the formation of carbonates and clay in a groundwater-fed lake in the ancient past.
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