Ground-Piercing Radar on NASA Mars Orbiter Ready for Work
NASA/JPL
September 19, 2006

This is good news, I was wondering what had happened.

And now web site say : 4 days to pointing instruments at Mars. Nearly there

Thats reminds me, whats is the current status of MARIS on Mars Express?

Deployed and taking data...of which we've seen very very very little.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/express/gallery/martianterrain/


Doug

They can't have found anything unusual with MARSIS or we would probably have heard more from it by now.

There was a press release about subsurface layers from MARSIS quite soon after it unfolded. Don't know why there hasn't been anything new...maybe it's very hard to see what they are actually looking at.

According to this MARSIS update already posted by Harder on August 28 (#10), there apparently have been more discoveries, just not announced yet...

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=2427#

Interesting image on the MRO homepage:
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/galler..._Flamini_br.jpg

Not sure if the screen shows anything meaningful though...

And now for something completely different: The SHARAD homepage. Spot the Major blooper.
http://www.sharad.org/

Might as well call it Mars Renaissance Orbiter

Doug

The Viking 2 lander image of frost-covered ground labeled as "Brines on the Martian Surface as pictured by Mars Pathfinder in 1997"?????

-the other Doug

Doesnt instill confidence does it.

Doug

un-needed quote removed

At the bottom right of the picture shows one of the Viking legs.

Rodolfo

According to New Scientist, SHARAD has already taken its first images, but not released yet:

Mars Probe Obtains First Radar Images
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/d...dar-images.html

Does anyone have any further info on the new additional results from MARSIS that I referred to in post #8?

At least we'll know what they are talking about when they announce the discovery of subsurface brines. We just won't know where.

As I write, the MRO's website say : "17 hours away of pointing the instruments to Mars."

I can't find where it says that...? The last update there is from September 20.

As I just noted before, an initial test image was already taken, and can be seen here on the background computer screen:

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/galler...af_Flamini.html

The official versions haven't been released yet though. There may be others, going by the New Scientist article.

Sorry, I didn't give the source.
It's on MRO website and "Where's the orbiter NOW"
Wonder if it's true but ther's only 9 hours to go as I write :
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/realtime/mro_001.jpg

The MRO Web team seems to be grammar-impaired; however, I'm sure that the flight control team is sharp as all get out!