One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface. After 17 years of service, NASA has decommissioned CRISM, the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, which was aboard the Mars Reconnaissance
Artist Concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA has retired the 17-year-old CRISM instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The device, which helped generate high-resolution mineral maps of Mars and guided the selection of landing sites, used visible and infrared light to identify water-related minerals. Despite the end of its active service, the data CRISM collected will continue to be used in future Mars research.
CRISM data was superimposed onto an image of Mars’ Alga Crater captured by another MRO instrument, HiRISE. Each color represents a different material: blue for pyroxene, red for olivine, and green for impact glass, which forms in the heat of a violent impact that excavates a crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/Univ. of Arizona
“Shutting down CRISM marks the end of an era for us,” said Rich Zurek, MRO’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission. “It’s revealed where and how water transformed ancient Mars. The CRISM data products will be mined by scientists for years to come.”
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