Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter

Detailed Martian Scenes in New Images from Mars Orbiter

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-193&cid=release_2010-193

Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera
include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs.

Each of the 600 newly released observations from the High Resolution Imaging Science
Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers an area of
several square miles on Mars and reveals details as small as desks.

The HiRISE images taken from April 5 to May 6, 2010, are now available on NASA's Planetary
Data System (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/) and the camera team's website
(http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu).

The camera is one of six instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached
Mars in 2006.  For more information about the mission, see http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/.

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