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78,000 Mars Global Surveyor Photos Online

Posted by timothy on from the seeing-red-up-close dept.

angkor writes: "AP is reporting that the Mars Global Surveyor snapped its 100,000th picture of Mars. The Viking orbiters took about 55,000 total. Even better is that over 78,000 of the images are online in the (MOC Gallery). You get to click on a map of Mars to zoom into a specific region. Wow."

2 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Are we alone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    here: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/extended_may20 01/face/

    I can't believe I did that..

  2. Re:Are we alone? by Man+of+E · · Score: 2, Informative

    From image 035A72 taken by Viking orbiter:
    LAT C= +40.90 UL= +41.14 UR= +40.28 LL= +41.52 LR= +40.65
    LONG C= 9.52 UL= 8.76 UR= 9.28 LL= 9.77 LR= 10.28
    The region is called Cydonia, so you should be able to find it in the gallery. Not that the face will be recognizable, since it was a lighting artifact in the first place.

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