davemania Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends first snaps homeThe most powerful camera ever sent into space has relayed its first batch of detailed test images of the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sent four photos back to Earth early on Friday morning. "We're seeing brand new details ? things never seen before," says team member Chris Okubo on a blog kept by HiRISE team member Loretta McKibben. "I am very happy!" says principal investigator Alfred McEwen on the blog. He describes the pictures as "sharp, clear and beautiful". Another HiRISE team member waxes: "If you're not jazzed by this, you're not alive!" Water action NASA released the first picture, a mosaic of 10 images, taken from an altitude of 2500 kilometres above the southern hemisphere's mid-latitude highlands. It features an old, eroded crater near the centre, with channels on both sides as well as smaller, sharp-rimmed craters and dunes. In places, the landscape is covered in a younger layer of debris, while in others it appears that some of the mantle may have escaped as gas. NASA says the image "illustrates processes that may have involved water both on ancient Mars (channels and eroded craters) and much more recently in Mars's history (the younger mantle of debris)." The space agency also released a full-resolution image of one of the tiles (images) from the mosaic, showing the level of detail captured by the camera. That resolution will improve as the spacecraft gets closer to the Martian surface. Tiny details HiRISE will take an additional set of photos on Saturday, before the vehicle begins its months-long process of "aerobraking" ? dipping in and out of the Martian atmosphere to modify its orbit. In its final "science orbit", the spacecraft will circle the planet at a distance of 255 to 320 kilometres above the surface. From there, the team expects HiRISE will capture surface details smaller than 1 metre. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered orbit around Mars on 10 March after a nearly seven month, 500-million-kilometre journey. With the ability to send data 10 times faster than any previous Mars mission, MRO is designed to relay more science data from the Red Planet than all previous missions to Mars combined. http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/d...snaps-home.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 :laugh: Where are the Martians ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thermal+paste Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 looks like sedimentary rock layering only thing that causes that is water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePitt Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Nasa is studying the first pictures taken of the surface of the Red Planet by the high-resolution cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The spacecraft arrived at the planet two weeks ago with a mission to map the world in unprecedented detail. The test images released by the US space agency (Nasa) on Friday show a swathe of land in the planet's mid-latitude southern highlands. The probe is currently correcting its orbit and commissioning instruments. Three cameras were used to take the crisp black and white images. They captured the pictures while the spacecraft was flying about 2,490km (1,550 miles) above Mars' surface, about nine times the range planned for the orbiter's primary science mission. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4844850.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 ;) Was posted in Science section: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=446214 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePitt Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 oh. Please close this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePitt Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 the second pic looks like a river Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted March 26, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 26, 2006 Threads merged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnerhkjp Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 (edited) Soon, we'll get google moon :D How long did it take the satellite to get there? <Edit> Wow. They already have google moon. I HONESTLY did not know that!! Edited March 26, 2006 by gunnerhkjp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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