[meteorite-list] Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter (MRO)

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-193

Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 09, 2010

Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting
telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges
and steep cliffs.

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>.

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/.

Guy Webster (818) 354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

2010-193