Dr. Adrian Brown - March 22 2008

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has collected stunning images on the Red planet since it arrived at Mars last year. Scientists like Dr. Adrian Brown at the NASA Ames Research Center are poring over the data to work out what Mars is telling them about its history as a planet through the eyes of the CRISM (Compact InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) and the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera.

Dr. Brown will give an overview of MRO, and talk about Martian polar research that is shedding light on the most active regions on Mars today, where oceans of water are locked away in perpetuity at the polar caps. Or are they?