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Old 17-January-2007, 11:28 PM
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Five new HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 January 17, Release 9.
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New HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 January 24, Release 10.
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MRO views ... Jupiter!

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Every Wednesday the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera team posts a new set of images from Mars. I'm overwhelmed by the detail in these pictures; there is so much to look at that I hardly know where to begin, and the images are so big that it's tough to work with them, with the result that I don't post HiRISE pictures nearly as often as I should. But they made picking an image easy for me this week: they've released a photo taken by HiRISE, from Mars orbit, of Jupiter -- a photo that compares favorably with the images being taken by LORRI on New Horizons as it approaches for its flyby next month. In fact, the sheer number of pixels that HiRISE can acquire in one swath puts a framing camera like LORRI to shame; HiRISE managed to get Jupiter and all its satellites in one enormous picture. (You probably won't be able to see the moons without enlarging the picture.)
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New HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 January 31, Release 11.
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Whence came the Jupiter image.
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Mars probe snaps dramatic new images of gullies

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Dramatic new images of gullies and dried-up streambeds bolster evidence that water once gushed across the surface of Mars.

The images are the latest from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which boasts the most powerful camera ever sent to Mars.
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New HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 February 7, Release 12.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft this month is set to surpass the record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft. While continuing to produce data at record levels, engineers are examining why two instruments are intermittently not performing entirely as planned. All other spacecraft instruments are operating well and continue to return science data.
Since beginning its primary science phase in November 2006, the orbiter has returned enough data to fill nearly 1,000 CD-ROMs. This ties the record for Mars data sent back between 1997 and 2006 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission.
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A Boulder-built camera lauded as the most powerful ever sent to another planet is shooting increasingly fuzzier pictures of Mars, NASA reported Wednesday.
Engineers with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. built the main camera for NASA's $720-million Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Now, they're trying to help NASA scientists understand why the camera's pictures are no longer clear.
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That's sad. MRO was producing some nice and useful images.
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If the problem worsens, it is not "sad". It would be a bloody catastrophe.

The scientific phase has hardly begun.

Fortunately, warming the instrument seems to help the issue.
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MRO CRISM: A Fresh Crater Drills to Tharsis Bedrock



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The Tharsis region is a high volcanic plateau that stands about 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the surrounding plains. The rocks forming Tharsis are younger than in most parts of mars, as evidenced by their low density of craters. The best estimate of their age is comparable to the age of Shergotty-class meteorites thought to originate from Mars. However, Tharsis is covered by a nearly unbroken, meters-thick layer of dust that has frustrated all attempts to measure its bedrock composition remotely, and to determine if it matches the composition of Shergotty-class meteorites.

The recent discovery of dark, newly formed impact craters on Mars has provided the CRISM team a chance, finally, to measure the rocks that make up Tharsis. Over the lifetime of the Mars Global Surveyor mission, its high-resolution Mars Orbiter Camera monitored the surface and documented the very recent formation of some two dozen small impact craters. Several of them are in Tharsis and pierce the plateau's dust blanket to expose bedrock. MRO's instruments have been trained on these "drill holes" into Mars' volcanic crust, including the crater shown here.
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New HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 February 14, Release 13.

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By the way, the zoomify online image viewer has been beefed up to include not just the Transitional (TRA) images, but the Primary Science Phase (PSP) images as well (and one hopes kept up-to-date). But, it's not working too well for me right now.
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If the problem worsens, it is not "sad". It would be a bloody catastrophe.

The scientific phase has hardly begun.

Fortunately, warming the instrument seems to help the issue.
A growing number of 'Technical Glitches' this is a worrying development, I wonder if continued 'Warming' can slove this
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Well, technical problems are inevitable with any probe. Even the highly successful Voyager probes suffered serious problems. Let's hope they'll find a solution for it.
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New HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 February 21, Release 14.
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New HiRISE images at Primary Science Phase Images, 2007 February 28, Release 15.
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Why have we only had colour images from the primary phase so far ?

I tried the IAS JPEG2000 viewer that is linked from the MRO pages (linked above). What a sight! It gives new meaning to that phrase "birds eye view" (if there are any birds on Mars).

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