January 19, 2004

express photo

Today, Mars Express delivered some amazing photgraphic data from its HRSC. This image is constructed from 12 m/pixel, color, stereo imaging of Valles Marineris and it's just beautiful. Beagle was just one piece of the Mars Express mission so, while its apparent loss is sad, important science goals will still be accomplished. Express has a massive and very cool science payload and I expect we'll continue to get back great photos and other data for a long time to come.

update: JospehK, in the comments below, pointed to this news a few hours before I did. I should probably start checking here for my Mars news first :-)

Posted by asa at 2:29 PM

 

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