The orbiter's shallow radar experiment, one of six science instruments on board, is designed to probe the internal structure of Mars' polar ice caps, as well as to gather information planet-wide ...

When it starts its 3,340th day on the job on Dec. 15, it will break the previous record for Martian career longevity record set by its predecessor, Mars Global Surveyor, which operated in orbit ...

Explore Mars like never before! NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, equipped with the powerful HiRISE camera, has been scanning the Martian surface in breathtaking detail for over a decade.

Mars south pole ESA/DLR/FU BERLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO . The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has sent back a unique glimpse of the Red Planet: a sweeping view of Mars' south polar ice ...

Another of ESA’s Mars explorers, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), has previously imaged the spiders’ tendril-like patterns especially clearly in 2020 in a nearby region. While the Mars ...

In an early attempt to find the spacecraft, overhead search imagery of the Polar Lander's projected landing site was acquired by the Mars Orbiter Camera system, carried by NASA's Mars Global ...

Mars' polar caps. Vast deposits of ... Tianwen 1, which consists of an orbiter and a lander-rover duo, also reached Mars orbit in February 2021. The landed element touched down a few months later ...

But it's not sinking fast enough for us to detect it from orbit. So, ... In any case, the models also suggest that Mars' polar ice cap is less than 10 million years old, ...

The folks behind NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have put out pictures of the area where the Mars Polar Lander disappeared nine years ago - and are inviting people to see if they can find it ...

The ExoMars orbiter, which launched in 2016, also captured a photo of NASA's InSight lander on March 2, as it pounded its burrowing "mole" instrument into the ground to sample Mars' interior.