HiRISE Drops 1,000 Stunning New Mars Images For Your Viewing Pleasure

Universe today ^ | 4 Aug 2016 | Nancy Atkinson

[BenLurkin]

HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, is the largest and most powerful camera ever flown on a planetary mission, sending back incredible beautiful, high-resolution images of Mars. While previous cameras on other Mars orbiters can identify objects about the size of a school bus, HiRISE brings it to human scale, imaging objects as small as 3 feet (1 meter) across.

The HiRISE team has just released more than 1,000 new observations of Mars for the Planetary Data System archive, showing a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.

MRO orbits at about 300 km above the Martian surface. The width of a HiRISE image covers about about 6 km, with a 1.2 km strip of color in the center. The length of the images can be up to 37 km.

[Gamecock]

Alright. I’ve never been to Mars but I imagine it’s quite lovely.

[sagar]

Paid for by the US taxpayers? The rest of the world and freeloaders at home get to ‘enjoy’ for free?

[Donglalinger]

[smokingfrog]

Any more pyramid photos?

[Don Corleone]

A perfect place for the Obama Presidential Library.

[Larry Lucido]

I’ve never been stuned by Mars.

[Bubba_Leroy]

[Larry Lucido]

I think I see....a full moon!

[jafojeffsurf]

Where is that Inter galactic modulating demodulator?

[IronJack]

James Blish wrote for “Star Trek.” And Damon Knight wrote a lot of the sci-fi I read as a youngster.

[stevio]

I don’t wanna live on Mars, I don’t wanna drive space cars!

[Bullish]

There’s nothing crater than Mars.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Karliner]

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids,Elton John Rocketman

[BeauBo]

Otherworldly dunes in Archangel Crater:

[TalonDJ]

Fat lot he knows about raising kids.

[BeauBo]

Martian Northlands:

[BeauBo]

Nili Patera:

[JPG]