Martian landscapes
November 7th, 2009No, these aren’t some abstract paintings or some generative art, but photos from the surface of Mars. The NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting Mars since 2006 at a height approximately 300 km. The MRO has a very good camera on board: the HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has a resolution of a few inches per pixel. You can find more stunning photos at The Big Picture.
November 7th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
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November 8th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I really wish these images had some reference to scale. Are the sand dunes 1000 feet high or 50 feet?
Very beautiful pics!
BB
November 8th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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