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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.'"
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.
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.
And the site posted on Slashdot?
Bye Bye server!
" 'These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'" ...er, and discover them.
Oh, that's just great... Now The Terrorists will know where to put their Martian bombz.
Terrabytes of data, linked to slashdot...seriously what could go wrong?
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!
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.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Anybody have a mirror up yet?
Wow! The UA server crashed already,... and it wasn't even porn!
I thought we had Terrabytes of Earth pictures. Wouldn't we have Marsbytes of Mars pics?
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.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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!
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