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Old 03-April-2006, 10:20 AM
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Had this been an actual Hoagland-Manipulated Image, it would be accompanied by claims of proof of artificial structures from ancient Mars civilization, such as: "Look! A cityscape! Look! Buildings on Mars! Look at the geometery. Look at the artificiality. Look at the certain signs of civilization. Can't you see? Prove it isn't a city!"
Richard C Hoagland is so predictable.

Lost Cities of Barsoom

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MRO's first striking Mars mosaic, taken with another instrument aboard the spacecraft (the "HiRISE" camera) -- released early Friday (March 24, 2006) by NASA and the University of Arizona's "HIRISE Team" -- brought all the mystery and magic of Barsoom rushing back.

For, even casual inspection of the 30.9 mile by 11.7 mile, ultra-high-resolution (~8 feet per pixel!), 190.5 MB TIF version (!) of this spectacular "test" image [...] revealed, in unparalleled geometric clarity, nothing less than -- Burroughs "Lost Cities of Barsoom!"
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Craft Begins Adjusting Orbit

First Data from Mars Climate Sounder


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The Mars Climate Sounder, an instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter designed to monitor daily changes in the global atmosphere of Mars, made its first observations of Mars on March 24, 2006.

These tests were conducted to demonstrate that the instrument could, if needed, support the mission's aerobraking maneuvers (dips into the atmosphere to change the shape of the orbit) by providing hemisphere-scale coverage of atmospheric activity.
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New HiRISE pictures imminent: HiRISE Operations Center: HiRISE Test Images - News

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Look for another release of new HiRISE images on April 6, 2006. A press release is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Thursday. Please come back to this site for more information. Multiple images of Mars taken by HiRISE in March will be released! These newly released images will also be available for viewing or download on NASA's web sites.
I presume that 10 a.m. is MST for Arizona, 1000 PDT, 1300 EDT, 1700UTC.
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I downloaded the 48 MB version. Truly amazing!

Can it take colour pictures as well?
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I downloaded the 48 MB version. Truly amazing!

Can it take colour pictures as well?
NASA: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment

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Unprecedented image quality, resolution, coverage

Panchromatic and color images

Hundreds of full-resolution 20,000 x 40,000 pixel images

Color images up to 4,072 pixels wide, sub-meter scales

Thousands of high-resolution sub-scenes with 1 to 2 meters/pixel content

Hundreds of stereo pairs; production of Digital Elevation Models
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20048 x 9500 on that 48 meg shot ... wow!

They mention on the HiROC front page that this upcoming release will include color images.
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Arrow Minor delay
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April 8, 2006 (Thursday): The new batch of HiRISE images will be released later today. We're sorry for the delay. The exact time will be posted soon. Your busy HiRISE Webmaster is finalizing the web page now!
Looking forward to them!
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10:00 a.m., April 8, 2006 (Thursday): The new batch of HiRISE images will be released later today. We're sorry for the delay. The exact time will be posted soon. Your busy HiRISE Webmaster is finalizing the web page now!
[HOAGLAND]Obviously taking the time to make sure they've airbrushed out all the Martian pyramids[/HOAGLAND]
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Hey, you jinxed it.

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News Flash: The HiRISE images release scheduled for April 6 has been postponed due to some server hardware problems. Hopefully they will be released on Friday, April 7. As soon as a date and time are confirmed, it will be posted here.
I wonder why they were having problems adding the correct date... first it was Thursday April 4th, then April 8th...
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Arrow Success!
First Color HiRISE Image of Mars (More resolutions here)

Perspective Views of HiRISE First Image

Sample of the Argyre Impact Basin Rim (More resolutions here)

More to come at 1PM MST according to the HiROC page.

Edited to add: WOW.
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The perspective view reminds me of what we've been getting from Mars Express.
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It shouldn't need emphasizing, but I will, for those who might draw conclusions from the lush greens and damp blues:

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This is not natural color as seen by human eyes, but infrared color -- shifted to longer wavelengths.
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My gawd, Martian grass emits in IR, no wonder we couldn't see it until now.
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/quote[HOAGLAND]Obviously taking the time to make sure they've airbrushed out all the Martian pyramids[/HOAGLAND]/unquote

But they missed the Face of Darth Vader!! (PIA8061 right hand side, 1/3 of way from top)
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fantastic picture, its great Mars now has a fourth active orbiter giving us some great info on the red planet
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More 3D views at the bottom of this page, as well as release of the first topographic model.
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WOW!! guess they sorted out the bandwidth problems at the DSN then.
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