An instrument employed by NASA to evaluate minerals such as clays, hematite, and sulphates across Mars’ surface has been retired after 17 years in use. The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer ...

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 ...

China just rolled out a kind of treasure map for the deep ocean, and it's about a lot more than metals. A state research ...

Afghanistan has become the first country in the world to have its surface minerals mapped from the air. The U.S. Geographical Survey (USGS) mapped some 70 percent of the country using an advanced ...

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 ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. Scattered across the United States, ...

China has released a detailed seabed atlas mapping critical minerals like cobalt, nickel, and manganese after two decades of ocean sampling. Covering contested waters such as the East China and Yellow ...

Mineral maps are providing unprecedented insights into the history of Mars, using data from the OMEGA instrument aboard Europe’s Mars Express spacecraft. The maps suggest Mars went through three ...

New maps published Monday are expected to attract new mineral exploration interest and investment in central British Columbia. Six sets of three maps from Geoscience BC can now be used by industry, ...

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 ...