Martian landscapes - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars. I invite you to take your time looking through these, imagining the settings - very cold, dry and distant, yet real.
MARS! A whole other world! One that you can actually explore for yourself!
As the good Doctor said,
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
2 comments:
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So tell me d-boy...
Can you see "the bright spot visible at lower left is the Mars Pathfinder Lander, its ramps, science deck, and portions of the airbags visible." in picture #7..??
I sure do not see it. Just curious if you do.
...tom...
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Hmmmm. Maybe they mean the thing that looks like just another rock, located just above (well, about the length of the word "ancient") the space between the words "on" and "an."
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