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HiRISE Drops 1,000 Stunning New Mars Images For Your Viewing Pleasure
Universe today ^
| 4 Aug 2016
| Nancy Atkinson
Posted on 08/04/2016 3:53:03 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: hirise; images; mars
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To: BenLurkin
Dunes:
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08/04/2016 5:05:50 PM PDT
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BeauBo
To: BenLurkin
Candidate Landing Site for 2020 Mission in Northeast Syrtis Major Region:
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08/04/2016 5:08:24 PM PDT
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BeauBo
To: BeauBo
DUNES? Captain, there be worms!
To: TalonDJ
Good catch. Tried a little irony.
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08/04/2016 5:17:24 PM PDT
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Karliner
( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
To: Gamecock
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08/04/2016 5:26:35 PM PDT
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mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Bubba_Leroy
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08/04/2016 5:28:33 PM PDT
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mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Donglalinger
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08/04/2016 5:30:38 PM PDT
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mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: All
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08/04/2016 5:33:22 PM PDT
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mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: smokingfrog
Nice symmetrical pattern. Rotate clockwise about 20 degrees.
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08/04/2016 7:08:51 PM PDT
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justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: BenLurkin
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08/04/2016 11:04:53 PM PDT
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VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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