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First Super Close-Up Pictures of Mars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the extreme-close-up dept.

Alien54 writes "The most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars will get its first close look at the Red Planet on Friday. The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera flying aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will relay its first low-altitude images to scientists at The University of Arizona beginning September 29. User-friendly web tools will be available to both the science community and the public to view/analyze HiRISE images and to submit observation requests. Processed images will be released soon after acquisition to allow everyone to share in the scientific discovery process. By combining very high resolution and signal-to-noise ratio with a large swath width, it is possible to for images to be collected on scales down to 1 meter."

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  1. Ummm... by Max+Threshold · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aren't the Mars rovers "super close up"?

    1. Re:Ummm... by grammar+fascist · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, but with the rover pictures all you see is the same old thing: sand and rocks. Now, with these cool new ones, there's a qualitative difference: they show rocks and sand.

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    2. Re:Ummm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      And blueberries. Don't forget the blueberries found by the Opportunity rover.

      Mmmm.... blueberries. Must ... get ... breakfast.

  2. Google by Kurayamino-X · · Score: 3, Funny

    How long untill they're on google mars?

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  3. In fact, the resolution is *so* high... by RulerOf · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...That we'll finally be able to determine if the hand that belongs to that face on the Martian surface is giving us the finger.

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