Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public

Riding with Robots writes "The team that runs the high-rez camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released more than 1,200 Mars images to the Planetary Data System, NASA's mission data archive. The team has also released 1.7 Terabytes of data to a user-friendly site that allows users to quickly home in on each image, most of which are a gigabyte-sized files measuring 20,000 by 50,000 pixels. Not all the images have been thoroughly studied yet: in the announcement, the camera's lead scientist said, 'These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'"

Comments

With one thing edited out that is....

[0.693]

Pictures of the faces on the surfaces! It's a conspiracy. They didn't land a man on the moon, but there is Jesus on Mars.

Re:With one thing edited out that is....

[__aaclcg7560]

That would explain the Bush Administration's emphasis on a manned mission to Mars.

Re:With one thing edited out that is....

[jollyreaper]

That would explain the Bush Administration's emphasis on a manned mission to Mars. I thought it was because we had to fight the Martians there so we wouldn't have to fight them here.

Just spotted a face!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, nevermind...

1.7 Terabytes..... what a waste!

[Bomarc]

All that hard drvie space could be used for porn!

Re:1.7 Terabytes..... what a waste!

[spun]

What? What are you talking about, just look at her, she's got HUGE volcanoes, man! I'd motorboat the hell out of those mountains. She's got the deepest gash of any planet in the freakin' solar system dude! I'd totally hit the Valles Marineris.

Classified Images

[realisticradical]

Bah, obviously they're fake like the moon landing. They're covering for the real reason we went, to spy on the great Martian civilizations.

Re:Classified Images

[ultramkancool]

Then we can transport all their oil back here.

Gigabyte files?

[WaZiX]

And the site posted on Slashdot?

Bye Bye server!

Darn undiscovered discoveries...

[VidEdit]

" 'These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'" ...er, and discover them.

Re:Darn undiscovered discoveries...

[andphi]

At last, the elusive second step:

1) Take pictures of other planets
2) release pictures to geeks
3) Scienc^H^H^H^H^H^HProfit!

The Terrorists Win

[drooling-dog]

Oh, that's just great... Now The Terrorists will know where to put their Martian bombz.

Stress test

[Anonymous Coward]

Terrabytes of data, linked to slashdot...seriously what could go wrong?

Fake!

[suv4x4]

Those fotos are all fake: NASA setup a Mars stage on the Moon, and colored it red in Photo Shop. They used Total Recal as a referens!!

Such obvios scam, I can't believe youv fallen for it, guyz!

Re:Fake!

[suv4x4]

Those fotos are all fake: NASA setup a Mars stage on the Moon

This previos statement of main, makes it look as if I actually said NASA went to the Moon. But you didn't read between the lines:

What I mean is, the stage on the Moon is fake too, so they in fact setup the Mars stage on the Moon stage on Earth.

As a proof: desaturate the "Mars" fotos: observ, they look as if shot on the Moon. Now look at the original fotos, play Total Recal. They are both red.

Now colorize the photos and put blue sky: they look like Earth fotos.

It is undeniable they faked it. Scammers.

meh

[Aqua_boy17]

I personally think I'll wait for the Google street level view. Then maybe we'll be able to catch the 'Face' on Mars walking out of a porn shop.

/. ed

[Anonymous Coward]

Anybody have a mirror up yet?

I wonder how long before...

[erroneus]

...we see some really interesting images pointed out indicating just about anything imaginable. :) If every hispanic sees Jesus in a tortilla or the bark of a tree, there's bound to be interesting things on Mars's surface too. I'd like to see someone hack into the sites hosting the images, photoshop some 'aliens' in there and over-write the originals. :) That'd be too funny.

Re:Alright, let's take down Arizona!

[cashman73]

Wow! The UA server crashed already,... and it wasn't even porn!

Re:Darn undiscovered discoveries...known unknowns

[WidescreenFreak]

"You see, there are known knowns and known unknowns. But we didn't know about the unknown knowns until they were known. The face on Mars is a known known, but why it's there is a known uknown. So, there are 1.7 terabyes of data full of known unknowns that hopefully will become known knowns. But as to when we'll get the time to do that, that's a known unknown."
- D. Rumsfeld, NASA Spokesman

Re:free images of Earth and Mars

[symbolset]

Yeah, it's almost as if the images of Earth had been derezzed for some reason...

Wrong title?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought we had Terrabytes of Earth pictures. Wouldn't we have Marsbytes of Mars pics?

Re:Wrong title?

[ChrisMounce]

They probably converted the units so to be better understood: Marsbytes * (510,065,600 km^2 Terran surface)/(144,798,465 km^2 Martian surface) = Terrabytes I mean, what earthling wants to do that in their head while they read the article?

Excellent

[Billosaur]

Now we can begin planning the full-scale invasion of Mars! We'll give them pesky green-skins what fer!!

Re:Google Mars

[scottp]

Maybe, and perhaps Mr. Tim Ankers can use these photos with his Merlindown software mentioned here to find signs of Martians and their crashed saucers from the comfort of his chair.

Re:Google Mars

[freakmn]

That's nothing. Check out Google Moon, and it gives you a detailed map of the moon with place markers for the landings from the Apollo Missions. It's so detailed, in fact, that if you zoom in all the way, you can see the very material that the moon is made from! It's amazing to see, so check it out yourself!