Posted on 12/15/2006 11:54:38 PM PST by Dallas59
The HiRISE Operations Center (HiROC) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is responsible for the majority of the ground data system work for the HiRISE instrument. Observation planning, uplink, downlink, data processing, and instrument monitoring are all performed at HiROC. The HiRISE camera is one of six instruments on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which successfully went into orbit around Mars on March 10, 2006.
Just WTF are we looking at?
Pictures of Mars!
First one is a pic of sand dunes...the second is of a gully on Mars.
Face on Mars
That's on Pluto...
More like Bluto.
Why does that look like water?
by Jim Garvin
Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Hike length is approximately 5.5 km or 3.6 miles one way, with a total elevation gain of nearly a thousand feet. Rating.... easy at start and midsection, with some very steep sections. Take plenty of water and oxygen.
I wish such high-res lenses were available to the civilian photographers. But then, the price would be astronomical, and the weight would be less than handleable.
I like Saturn better.
Off hand I'd say the first one is a close up of the top of a 3 Musketeers bar.
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