Thousands of new images show Mars in high resolution
Thu Sep 3, 2009 at 10:33 UTC
Thousands of newly-released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera on the orbiter recorded these images from April to August of this year. Several featured images are released each week by the camera's operations team at The University of Arizona.
This larger batch release is one of periodic postings of all images from given periods of the mission.
View the new images on the HiRISE Web site.
Each full image from HiRISE covers a strip of Martian ground six kilometers (3.7 miles) wide, about two to four times that long, showing details as small as one meter or yard across.
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