[meteorite-list] OT FW: Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter

[Warren Sansoucie]

> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:14:04 -0700
> Subject: Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
> From: info at jpl.nasa.gov
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> Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
> 
> The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: 
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-193&cid=release_2010-193
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> Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera 
> include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.
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> Each of the 600 newly released observations from the High Resolution Imaging Science 
> Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers an area of 
> several square miles on Mars and reveals details as small as desks. 
> 
> The HiRISE images taken from April 5 to May 6, 2010, are now available on NASA's Planetary 
Data System (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/) and the camera team's website 
(http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu).
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> The camera is one of six instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in 2006. For more information about the mission, see  http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/. 
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> 2010-193
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