Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — The most powerful camera ever sent into space has relayed its first batch of detailed test images of the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). It sent four photos back to Earth early on Friday morning.
NASA released the first picture. Taken from an altitude of 2500 kilometres above the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitude highlands, it is a mosaic of 10 images. It features an old, eroded crater near the centre, with channels on both sides. It also reveals smaller, sharp-rimmed craters and dunes. In places, the landscape is covered in a younger layer of debris, while in others it appears that some of the mantle may have escaped as gas.
Via: New Scientist
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Sends Its First Images of Mars
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