April 8, 2006

color hirise from mro

NASA/JPL has posted the first color image of Mars from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment onboard MRO. The spacecraft is still in the early stages of it's orbit correction maneuvers that won't be completed until late this year, so the resolution of this near infrared image is only about 2.5 meters per pixel, but it's still astonishing detail and this is just a small taste of what's to come. Check it out.

Posted by asa at 12:38 PM

 

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