“The featured image of a hill inside Horowitz Crater was investigated by instruments aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter . . .”
1. They are dancing around calling it a photograph. Is this a computer-generated rendering? If so, I’d like to be told.
2. I forget: does the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have a ground-based component, that can take images like this from the ground and send them up to the orbiter?
It’s a photograph, taken digitally, like on a camera phone; it was taken from orbit, but looks like a long angle, rather than straight down.