{"id":16957,"date":"2010-05-06T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-martian-views-from-orbiting-camera-show-diversity\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:49:00","slug":"new-martian-views-from-orbiting-camera-show-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/new-martian-views-from-orbiting-camera-show-diversity.php","title":{"rendered":"New Martian Views From Orbiting Camera Show Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span>The view of oddly sculpted ground inside the giant Hellas Basin on Mars comes from the High Resolution Imaging Science Instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona<\/span>
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<\/span>New images from more than 750 recent observations of Mars by an orbiting telescopic camera testify to the diversity of landscapes there. <\/span> <\/div>

The images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter <\/span>are now available on NASA's Planetary Data System<\/a> and on the camera team's website<\/a>. The features visible in the images range from oddly sculpted terrain inside a giant crater to frosted dunes, deformed craters, old gullies and pits strung along fractured ground. <\/span><\/p>

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This new batch brings the tally from the high-resolution camera to more than 1.4 million image products derived from more than 14,200 observations. Each observation can reveal features as small as desks in areas covering several square miles. <\/span><\/p>

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The camera is one of six instruments on NASA<\/a>'s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/span>, which reached Mars in 2006. For more information about the mission, see http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mro<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>

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