Surface of the Red Planet: images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite

Telegraph ^ | Unkown | Picture: NASA / JPL / UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA / BARCROFT MEDIA

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Carrying the most powerful telescopic camera ever flown to another planet, the satellite was launched in August 2005. Older observer satellites flown on previous missions to space were able to identify space objects no smaller than a London bus. But the state-of-the-art camera on-board Orbiter can spot something the size of a dinner table

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There are 14 images...I'll include some here:

Rocky mesas of Nilosyrtis Mensae region

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Part of the Abalos Undae dune field

[NormsRevenge]

Dude! That dune is cool.!

see any of these yet? ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

[evets]

[JRios1968]

[evets]

Did they get a pic of Sheila Jackson Lee?

[NormsRevenge]

Here's a set of HiRise shots of the Phoenix Lander.. JPL Nasa

Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

November 04, 2009 PASADENA, Calif. -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The HiRISE camera team at the University of Arizona, Tucson, captured one image of the Phoenix lander on July 30, 2009, and the other on Aug. 22, 2009. That's when the sun began peeking over the horizon of the northern polar plains during winter, the imaging team said. The first day of spring in the northern hemisphere began Oct. 26.

[NormsRevenge]

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_014393_2485

[NormsRevenge]

5 recent released HiRise pics ..
Nov 4, 2009
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/nea.php

[RJR_fan]

Thanks for the amazing post. I pray the day will come when I can look up into the night sky, and invoke divine favor on kids, or grandkids, at work on Mars. It’s obvious God means for us to inhabit that neighboring world — the day is only 37 minutes longer than ours — extra time to sleep in!

[RJR_fan]

Thanks for the amazing post. I pray the day will come when I can look up into the night sky, and invoke divine favor on kids, or grandkids, at work on Mars. It’s obvious God means for us to inhabit that neighboring world — the day is only 37 minutes longer than ours — extra time to sleep in!

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh! Ahhh! Thanks Ernest!

Not X-Planets per se, but probably of interest!

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[LiberConservative]

I see nothing but an advanced alien civilization building weapons to destroy earth. Call Richard Hoagland! He must send the message! Otherwise, WE ARE DOOMED!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL!

These photos have taken awhile to show up...

[onedoug]

Swell pix guys.

God, God made a fascinating universe.