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09 June 2010
Get Your Mars (and HiRISE) Fix With Over 600 New Images
Mmmm, Mars. And lots of it, too! The team from one of our all-time favorite scientific instruments, the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released a big batch of images taken from April 5 to May 6, 2010, and they are now available on NASA's Planetary Data System and on [...]
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10 May 2010
Latest Mars Avalanche Likely Triggered by Impact Event
The HiRISE team from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured a few avalanches on Mars, some actually while in progress. But this latest landslide is a little different. Above is a dust avalanche that created a streak on the slopes of Olympus Mons, the solar system's largest volcano. While scientists believe some [...]
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24 March 2010
MRO Sees Opportunity on the Edge of Concepcion Crater (and more!)
It has been awhile since I've posted a batch of new images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera, and what a treat when I saw what had just been released! This image shows the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of Concepción Crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars. This image was [...]
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25 February 2010
Stunning New Looks at the Mars Avalanche
Remember the amazing image of an avalanche on Mars back in 2008, captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter? Bernhard Braun from UnmannedSpaceflight.com has now created several different 3-D views of the event, providing never-seen-before, ground-level observations by using special software he developed that can create three dimensional images [...]
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27 January 2010
New Amazing Mars Flyover Videos
Doug Ellison from UnmannedSpaceflight.com has done it again… and again… and again. Here are new Mars flyover videos Doug has created from data from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Using DEM (Digital Elevation Model)– (also known as DTM Digital Terrain Model) files provided by the HiRISE team, Doug is able [...]
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20 January 2010
HiRISE Makes Your Wishes Comes True
The HiRISE science team is now taking requests! A new web tool called HiWish is now available for the high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which allows the public to suggest a location on Mars where the HiRISE instrument should take an image. If you don't have a particular location, you can use [...]
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16 January 2010
Stunning New Views From HiRISE; Plus Big Announcement?
Caption: Dune symmetry on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona It is so wonderful to see the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter back in action, especially our favorite camera, the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE. The HiRISE team released some of their latest images this week, and they are particularly stunning, including this one of symmetrical dunes [...]
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15 October 2009
Amazing and Marvelous Mars Dunes
I see the Bad Astronomer has beat me to the punch by posting this image before I could. But what an amazing and gorgeous image of dunes on Mars! However, my initial thought when I saw this on the HiRISE webpage was perhaps this was the first long-awaited look at Phil's tattoo. [...]
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08 October 2009
Why We All Love HiRISE
My description of this image: "Holy moly — what a gorgeous shot!" NASA's description of this image: "Layers in the lower portion of two neighboring buttes within the Noctis Labyrinthus formation on Mars are visible in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter." Absolutely beautiful. [...]
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12 August 2009
HiRISE Highlights: Crater Within a Crater, Awesome View of Victoria and More
I was just thinking it had been awhile since we featured images from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, so I moseyed over to the HiRISE website only to be blown away by their newest releases. This incredible crater in Meridiani Planum shows a possible double whammy of impacts. It [...]
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29 June 2009
Landforms Indicate "Recent" Warm Weather on Mars
Remember the polygon-shaped landforms at Mars north polar region that the Phoenix lander studied? The polygons are produced by seasonal expansion and contraction of ground ice, and these shapes have been found in other regions on Mars as well. New studies of images from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicates [...]
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17 June 2009
Looking for (Former) Lakeshore Property? HiRISE Finds It on Mars
If you're in the market for some remote lakeshore property where you can get away from it all, this might be just what you're looking for. Located in a secluded, pristine setting, this must-see property might be one of a kind. It's very remote; – did I mention this lakeshore is on Mars? [...]
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