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Tons of new Mars Data

Posted by timothy on from the don't-worry-it's-on-freenet dept.

Bamf writes "In the past few days a lot of brand new Mars data was released. The Mars Global Surveyor Camera released 11,664 new images (123,800 released to date), and the THEMIS instrument aboard Odyssey released 8,761 new infrared and visible light images (20,010 released to date). For the short attention span crowd, there's new captioned images here and here. Last month, every superhero's favorite instrument, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer, released element maps of iron, potassium, thorium and silicon, as well as a map of polar hydrogen."

10 comments

  1. Were they just lazy? by Graelin · · Score: 1

    I mean, all of a sudden those cameras just decide to take a lot of photos? Damn, that's lazy.

    Oh wait, I get it now...

  2. That Whirring sound you hear... by EvilBastard · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...is the sound of all the Mars Loons loading up their copies of Photoshops to see what they can find.

    I hope they Have a nice day

    1. Re:That Whirring sound you hear... by Descartes · · Score: 1

      Hmmm, does anyone know where the "face" on mars is supposed to be? I'd like to see what it really is if we have such good pictures now.

      I bet they just "forgot" to get an image of that area :)

    2. Re:That Whirring sound you hear... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Cydonia region. Have a look at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mgs_cydonia.h tml.

    3. Re:That Whirring sound you hear... by SuperGlue · · Score: 1

      The same Loons will showcase their true expertise by downloading only the JPGs files rather than pulling down the lossless GIFs. The rest of their night will be used to hit redial over and over trying to get into the Art Bell show. Eager to reveal how they are personally responsible for the term "Idiot scientist".

      SuperGlueBooger

  3. pshaw by BortQ · · Score: 2, Funny
    every superhero's favorite instrument, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer

    Real superheros don't need no stinkin Gamma Ray Spectrometer! They just use their eyes.

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  4. Re:msss.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why is that offtopic? The site this story links to doesn't work.

  5. Tons? by knowledgepeacewi · · Score: 1

    Truly it can't be more than 1 or 2 hard drives worth....maybe 3-5 lbs.

  6. Resource Maps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Being interesting in Martian colonization, I would be interested to see information regarding the distribution of phosphorus and nitrogen, things that are going to be needed to grow any kind of crops.

    Sure you can get nitrogen from the atmosphere, but there is still the issue of the phosphorus needed for things like nucleic acids and energy for cellular reactions.

    Anyone know if such maps currently exist?