78000 Pics From Mars Mission

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday December 5, 2001 @01:56AM from the lotsa-things-to-look-at dept.

DerOle writes "Here http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ are about 78.000 pics from Mars, shoot by the Mars Global Surveyor. There are even more pics to come, about 163 gigs of uncompressed data. From the page : MOC is operated daily at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). MOC consists of three cameras: A narrow angle system that provides grayscale high resolution views of the planet's surface (typically, 1.5 to 12 meters/pixel), and red and blue wide angle cameras that provide daily global weather monitoring, context images to determine where the narrow angle views were actually acquired, and regional coverage to monitor variable surface features such as polar frost and wind streaks. Most of the high resolution images are obtained by careful planning and inspection of predicted MGS orbits by Mars scientists working at and/or visiting MSSS. The company is also responsible for archiving the data once they are received on Earth."

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