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HTTP:: New Hi Res Photos of Mars Available
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Despite its ongoing “health problems,” the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is still apt to take beautiful, high-resolution pictures of the Red Planet. Some 233 recent telescopic observations of the surface yielded thousands of detailed images of various features on the planet, ranging from sand dunes to plateaus, craters and hills. The diversity of shapes and textures present on Mars at this time is, apparently, greater than experts first thought, even after numerous rover and lander missions. The instrument in charge of capturing the amazing snapshots is the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, which is, in fact, a 0.5-meter reflecting telescope. It has an amazingly high resolution, of 0.3-meters from an altitude of 300 kilometers, which is better than that of many NASA satellites surveying our own planet, which produce 0.5-meter-resolution images. It collects data using three separate wavelength intervals â€" 400 to 600, 550 to 850 and 800 to!
1,000 nanometers. When photographing in red light, it produces images as large as 20,000 × 40,000 pixels (800 megapixels). In blue-green and near-infrared wavelengths, the snapshots have 4,000 × 40,000 pixels (160 megapixels). The MRO was instrumental in furthering our understanding of Mars, as the probe beamed back a la...
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