Wow! What magnificent pictures!

If RCH decides to do his JPEG thing with these, then the poor Martian structures will be a few meters maximum dimensionally.

But we all know it's a cover-up.

Meanwhile, I just had a flash of a swimming pool on Europa.

There are the usual warnings about no lifeguard on duty, etc. But, where the water reaches its maximum depth, there's a sign:

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Nice images! Thanks MRO team!

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And they added a feature I didn't see yesterday: "zoomify image browser". It shows the big picture and gives you controls to zoom in and out and pan, a bit like Google Maps.

Fascinating.

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Its the only way to view.

Added: BAH!! MORE BANDWIDTH! Only getting 148 kb/s....

Wouldn't take but a flash if they'd give us a 700+kb/s connection.

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Got the full sized JPEG down, and its too big for any of my imaging software...

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Matched my experience. Just as well for me. I'd waste too much time scrutinizing them.

By the way, there is a second MRO image up. I don't suppose I should continue announcing every new image, as they roll in, but #2 is almost as exciting as #1, numerically. The subject isn't as interesting, but it is cool: North Polar Layered Deposits.

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Do you have IrfanView?

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Amazing photos !

Nope.

Was planning on trying Adobe Photoshop when I got to the office, oh, twenty minutes ago.

Of course, I walked out of the house without the disk, so I'm hosed, unless I want to download it on a 50kb/s connection (Honestly, I'll take someone else's word for it.)

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New images from the High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiters website...

North Polar Layered Deposits TRA_000825_2665 2006-Sep-29
Cerberus Fossae TRA_000827_1875 2006-Oct-02
Yardangs in the Medusae Fossae Formation TRA_000828_1805 2006-Oct-02
Polygonal Terrain in the Northern Plains TRA_000828_2495 2006-Oct-02
The Floor of Niger Vallis: Bearer of Ancient Floodwaters? TRA_000830_1440 2006-Oct-02
Contacts Between Light and Dark Material in Meridiani Planum TRA_000833_1800 2006-Oct-02
Aram Chaos TRA_000834_1835 2006-Oct-02
HiRISE Sample of Dust-Covered Olympus Mons Lava Flows TRA_000838_1945 2006-Oct-02
Southern edge of Elysium Planitia TRA_000840_1810 2006-Oct-02
Polar Layers Near Chasma Boreale TRA_000840_2750 2006-Oct-02

Source

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Most of the full-resolution images are too large to download and view. Fortunately they added zoomable images.

Look at the Cerberus Fossae image for example. You can almost feel being there!

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Damn that is so neat! The detail is simply amazing!

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Hum,
i wonder when the worldwind mars plugin will be released?

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Only a small fraction of the Martian surface will be imaged in this detail by MRO. It WOULD be really cool to have WorldWind for Mars.

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Hum,
for those who don't know, worldwind is a bit like google earth, and Mars is currently only covered by:

* MOC (Mars Global Surveyor - Mars Orbiter Camera)
* MOLA (MGS - Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter)
* THEMIS (Mars Odyssey - Thermal Emission Imaging System)
* MDIM (Viking - Mars Digital Image Model)

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

Attached Images

take us out of orbit sulu.jpg (65.2 KB, 6 views)

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It is coded with C# and requires .NET to operate. So if you don't have Windows 2000 or XP, you can safely forget it for now.

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Mars Express is supposed to image the entire surface - it would be nice if that data set could be included. (Of course, that's not a NASA mission.)

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I wonder if that trick that Mars Global Surveyor used to increase resolution would also work on MRO? That was where they rotated the spacecraft in synch with the planet rotation as they took the picture. Maybe MRO always does that?

Perhaps I'm just being greedy. But I noted the Victoria crater MRO picture of the rover itself, while good, could have used just a tiny more oomph.

RBG

Um, no. This is native, unenchanced resolution of MRO. If this technique is possible with MRO, well... 0,1cm resolution of Opportunity... *drools*

You have shadow of mast, rover tracks, possible mast itself in details of rover image, you can recognize direction of MER... amazing in itself!

BTW wonder how human standing on ground would be seen in place of MER?