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Hi, mom ! Mars Orbiter takes a picture of Mars Rover on the lip of Victoria Crater with the HiRISE camera.
Amazing.
Related images.
Last March test images were taken with the HiRISE camera "from a distance of 1,600 miles above the planet as the orbiter settled into a circular orbit around the planet."
Next up -- "HiRISE's best chance for photographing candidate Phoenix mission landing sites is in October and November because the sun is getting lower as northern Mars moves into fall..."
posted by ericb at 12:07 PM on October 7, 2006
Related images.
Last March test images were taken with the HiRISE camera "from a distance of 1,600 miles above the planet as the orbiter settled into a circular orbit around the planet."
Next up -- "HiRISE's best chance for photographing candidate Phoenix mission landing sites is in October and November because the sun is getting lower as northern Mars moves into fall..."
posted by ericb at 12:07 PM on October 7, 2006
Clarification -- when do we get an IMAX-like virtual tour of Mars based on these newer high-res images. There already is the IMAX film: Roving Mars.
posted by ericb at 12:11 PM on October 7, 2006
posted by ericb at 12:11 PM on October 7, 2006
This is when we discover that the crater in Artw's picture is actually the mouth of some giant robot eating monster who has waited untold millennia for just this opportunity.
Goodbye little space rover. May the next world treat you better than the one we sent you to.
posted by quin at 12:20 PM on October 7, 2006
Goodbye little space rover. May the next world treat you better than the one we sent you to.
posted by quin at 12:20 PM on October 7, 2006
I love pictures of Mars. And those rovers are super awesome. I can't believe they are still moving around up there. Spirit is on the other side of the world, and is still working as well.
posted by Roger Dodger at 1:38 PM on October 7, 2006
posted by Roger Dodger at 1:38 PM on October 7, 2006
I've been keeping up since last week via the HiRISE Team Blog and the HiROC (HiRISE Operations Center) homepage.
The Clickworkers page I mentioned is working now, if you want to get involved with some volunteer science fun using the HiRISE and involving the Phoenix Mission. The MRO website is a real treat to peruse, as well.
I really hope the images flooding out of this wonderful device get all sassed up on Google Mars or some similar arrangement.
posted by carsonb at 3:18 PM on October 7, 2006
The Clickworkers page I mentioned is working now, if you want to get involved with some volunteer science fun using the HiRISE and involving the Phoenix Mission. The MRO website is a real treat to peruse, as well.
I really hope the images flooding out of this wonderful device get all sassed up on Google Mars or some similar arrangement.
posted by carsonb at 3:18 PM on October 7, 2006
Flagged for posting goastse image.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:25 PM on October 7, 2006 [1 favorite]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:25 PM on October 7, 2006 [1 favorite]
Photoshop a guy in a spacesuit onto that shot, and save the government the 40 billion dollars it will cost to send a man to Mars. This proves we can get great images of other planets comparatively cheaply with robots. I'm all for it.
posted by Faze at 5:45 PM on October 7, 2006
posted by Faze at 5:45 PM on October 7, 2006
I swear to you these little robots are the only things giving me hope about the world we live in.
I'm not sure how healthy a thing that is.
posted by washburn at 8:10 PM on October 7, 2006
I'm not sure how healthy a thing that is.
posted by washburn at 8:10 PM on October 7, 2006
Photoshop a guy in a spacesuit onto that shot, and save the government the 40 billion dollars it will cost to send a man to Mars.
Astro-not-even! /ucb
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:45 PM on October 7, 2006
Astro-not-even! /ucb
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 9:45 PM on October 7, 2006
Awww. Poor little guy looks so cold and alone!
He needs a sweater. Shut up, I'm knitting a sweater. I'll just need to raise a few hundred million for delivery. You'll chip in, right?
posted by loquacious at 10:03 PM on October 7, 2006
He needs a sweater. Shut up, I'm knitting a sweater. I'll just need to raise a few hundred million for delivery. You'll chip in, right?
posted by loquacious at 10:03 PM on October 7, 2006
I can see my space rover from here.
posted by crunchland at 12:16 AM on October 8, 2006
posted by crunchland at 12:16 AM on October 8, 2006
User-friendly web tools will be available to both the science community and the public to view/analyze HiRISE images and to submit observation requests.
do you think it would be possible to get in touch with them and ask them to take a photo ?
I have an applied photography unit to complete at college and this would be amazing.
posted by sgt.serenity at 7:41 AM on October 8, 2006
do you think it would be possible to get in touch with them and ask them to take a photo ?
I have an applied photography unit to complete at college and this would be amazing.
posted by sgt.serenity at 7:41 AM on October 8, 2006
If they get shots of the Viking landers, I will be ecstatic.
posted by gubo at 10:02 AM on October 8, 2006
posted by gubo at 10:02 AM on October 8, 2006
im on ur planet explorin ur craterz
posted by knave at 12:27 PM on October 8, 2006 [1 favorite]
posted by knave at 12:27 PM on October 8, 2006 [1 favorite]
This is cool, I love this stuff. Thanks y2karl!
washburn, sometimes I'm with you. Mostly when I read the news.
posted by rfbjames at 4:33 PM on October 8, 2006
washburn, sometimes I'm with you. Mostly when I read the news.
posted by rfbjames at 4:33 PM on October 8, 2006
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Yes, I am a nerd, I have favorite space photos.
posted by Artw at 12:01 PM on October 7, 2006