Scientists studying images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered the remains of an ancient Martian lake.

FORBES: NASA Finds Remains Of Ancient Martian Lake

Figuratively, rather than literally, but new images provided by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are giving us a glimpse of ancient underwater channels beneath the planet's surface.

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The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter represents the first time a Mars landing has been captured by another spacecraft.

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Passing over the landing site early Monday, the space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic image of Curiosity plunging toward the surface, dangling from its fully deployed, 51-foot-wide parachute.

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Using a ground-piercing radar sensor aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of scientists created 3-D maps of an equatorial region known as Elysium Planitia and the channels that run underneath the plains.

NPR: Radar Reveals Apparent Buried Channels On Mars

And that case has been bolstered yet again, as scientists studying images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite that takes pictures of the Martian surface from orbit using a variety of different tools.

FORBES: NASA Finds Remains Of Ancient Martian Lake

Data from the Sharad (SHAllow RADar) instrument (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), document that some of these glacial-like features, which you find at Mars' mid-latitudes, have a significant volume of ice left below a surface of rock debris.

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