First Super Close-Up Pictures of Mars

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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I feel a disturbance in the net

[aadvancedGIR]

As if millions of /.ers suddenly started hitting refresh every other second.

Re:Not Really the First

[djmurdoch]

Anybody but a hairsplitting idiot would fail to grasp the fact that I regarded it as self evident that Earth was excluded when I said

Actually, I think even a hairsplitting idiot would fail to grasp that fact.