Mars in High Resolutions
This is for Mars’ fans…
Last month the HiSIRE camera onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) released thousands of images of Mars, showing a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.
HiRISE stands for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment. I don’t need to say more – the name itself already tells you that these images are of high resolution. Each full image covers a strip of Martian ground 6 km wide, about two to four times that long, showing details as small as 1 meter across!
If you have the time, go and drown yourself in the images.
My Dark Sky 
[…] of Our Home Planet and Companion Few days ago, I showed some pretty pictures of Mars in high resolution by HiRISE. But HiRISE is not just good in looking at Mars; it can also see other planets, such […]
View of Our Home Planet and Companion « My Dark Sky said this on October 17, 2009 at 6:38 am |