[meteorite-list] Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution (MRO)

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:57:56 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <200909040057.n840vuKK019462_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-136

Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 02, 2009

PASADENA, Calif. -- Thousands of newly released images from more than
1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show
a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other
features on the Red Planet.

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the
orbiter recorded these images from the month of April through early
August of this year. The camera team at the University of Arizona,
Tucson, releases several featured images each week and periodically
releases much larger sets of new images, such as the batch posted today.

The new images are available at
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/sept_09.php .

Each full image from HiRISE covers a strip of Martian ground 6
kilometers (3.7 miles) wide, about two to four times that long, showing
details as small as 1 meter, or yard, across.

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 past and current missions to Mars combined. For
more information about the mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mro.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 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, is the prime
contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. The High Resolution
Imaging Science Experiment is operated by the University of Arizona,
Tucson, and the instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp., Boulder, Colo.

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

Lori Stiles 520-626-4402
University of Arizona, Tucson
lstiles at u.arizona.edu

2009-136
Received on Thu 03 Sep 2009 08:57:56 PM PDT