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Super Resolution Mars Pathfinder Image Available


A newly processed super resolution image taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander
is now available on the Mars Pathfinder website:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/parker/highresbigcrater.html

Image caption is attached.

Ron Baalke
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      Super Resolution Image of "Big Crater" by Dr. Timothy Parker, JPL


          Super Resolution of Big Crater - Medium Resolution 850 KB

          Super Resolution of Big Crater - Full Resolution 2440 KB

                  For Location of Big Crater See Map Below
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                                   [Image]

                             PIA01124_29418.jpg

              Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Catalog #: PIA01124

Mosaic of Viking orbiter images illustrating the location of the lander
(19.17 degrees N, 33.21 degrees W in the USGS reference frame) with respect
to surface features. Five prominent features on the horizon include North
Knob, Southeast Knob, Far Knob, Twin Peaks, and Big Crater. Two small
craters visible in the orbiter and lander views--Little Crater and Rimshot
Crater--lie on the northwest outer flank of the rim of Big Crater. Because
the lander is on the southeast-facing flank of a low ridge, very distant
features to the south and east are in view, whereas relatively nearby
features to the north are partially or completely obscured. Only the tip of
North Knob, which appears larger in the Viking orbiter images than the Twin
Peaks, projects above the local horizon, and a 300-m crater, 1.2 km to the
northeast, is completely obscured. Viking stereo images 004A27 and 004A87
and 004A44 and 004A70. North is up; scale bar, 5 km. (Insets) (Upper right)
Lander location. (Upper left) North Knob from lander. (Lower left) Far Knob
from lander. (Lower right) Southeast Knob from lander. The location of the
lander in inertial space (19.30 degrees N, 33.52degrees W) from the two- way
ranging and Doppler tracking of the lander is coincident with Rimshot
Crater.

NOTE: original caption as published in Science Magazine

Image Note: Science Magazine, Volume 278, Number 5344, 5 December 1997,
'Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

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