Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The rainbow-hued images might look like some kind of digital art, but in fact, they are maps of Mars, taken using the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, an instrument on ...

NASA has taken to the skies with a groundbreaking new tool designed to uncover critical minerals that power modern technology. The sensor, called AVIRIS-5 (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging ...

Scattered across the United States, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines scar the earth, posing a safety hazard to passing hikers and a health risk to nearby communities. But cached inside piles ...

A photo of a NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft with the AVIRIS and HyTES instruments installed. Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States ...

NASA switched off one of its oldest instruments studying Mars on April 3, a step that's been planned since last year. Riding aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM, or the Compact ...

Critical mineral lithium—the lightest of all metals—had long eluded geologists by slipping through the cracks of traditional analysis. Its low atomic weight, the very trait that makes it ideal for ...

In the global minerals race, the U.S. is critically outmatched. Our challenge is not geology; the U.S. has vast mineral resources. Rather, it is policy — namely, a duplicative and painfully ...

One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s surface. NASA switched off one of its oldest instruments studying ...