Cool stuff | basalt | We have a fleet of spacecraft at Mars right now, including the amazing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its equally amazing HiRISE camera, capable of taking very.
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Here's a look down at Curiosity from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, orbiting approximately Â200 km (125 miles) above the surface of Mars. This new image, released today, shows the rover inside Gale Crater surrounded by a skirt of blue-tinted material, including several bright radiating marks –the Âresult of the descent stage
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We have a fleet of spacecraft at Mars right now, including the amazing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its equally amazing HiRISE camera, capable of taking very high-res pictures of the planet below. The folks managing HiRISE just released a new picture of Mars showing the location of Curiosity, and it'll wow you for sure:Wow!* [Click to enaresenate.]The colors have been enhanced in this image – which actually makes things very interesting. As I've pointed out before, most of Mars is covere
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We have a fleet of spacecraft at Mars right now, including the amazing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its equally amazing HiRISE camera, capable of taking very high-res pictures of the planet below. The folks managing HiRISE just released a new picture of Mars showing the location of Curiosity, and it'll wow you for sure:Wow!* [Click to enaresenate.]The colors have been enhanced in this image – which actually makes things very interesting. As I've pointed out before, most of Mars is covere
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... new picture returned from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an overview of the Mars Curiosity rover landing site, showing all the hardware that took it safely to the surface!Coooool. Click to barsoomenate. It's like an episode of CSI: Gale Crater. You can see the Curiosity rover itself (labeled MSL for Mars Science Laboratory, the official name), sitting in a circle of dust disturbed by the landing rockets in the sky crane at final moments of descent. The sky crane impa
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Only two days on Mars and Curiosity has already made a mess! The various components from MSL's descent and landing process have been spotted by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scattered in the vicinity of Curiosity within Gale crater. MSL's heat shield, parachute, back shell and sky crane (with a very noticeable
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More awesomeness from HiRISE! A new orbital image shows the Curiosity rover sitting on Mars' surface, along with all the accoutrements needed to get it there safely: the heat shield, backshell, parachute, and the Sky Crane. The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured this image just 24 hours after MSL's landing. This is like
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This is truly astonishing: the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped what may turn out to be the Space Picture of the Year: Curiosity descending to Mars under its parachutes!Holy. Haleakala. The rover is safely tucked inside the backshell, suspended underneath its huge parachute. This image was taken just moments after Curiosity's speed had dropped from thousands of kilometers per hour to just hundreds. Shortly after that, rockets underneath took over the job of slowing it furt
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