[meteorite-list] New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images (MRO)

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-376  

New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
December 07, 2011

An improved tool debuts today for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and
other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution
Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter.  The new tool, HiView, offers the best way to take a personal,
virtual hike through any of thousands of square miles of Mars observed
by HiRISE, seeing details as small as a desk.  To watch the tutorial
video and download the free HiView application, go
to: http://www.uahirise.org/hiview/ .

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been studying Mars with an advanced
set of instruments since 2006. It has returned more data about the
planet than all other spacecraft combined. For more information about
the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro and
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro .

HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the
instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder,
Colo.  The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project is managed by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate, Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute
of Technology, also in Pasadena. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver,
built the spacecraft.

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

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