Sunday, September 28, 2008

UA releases 1,000 more Mars HiRISE photos


The Lunar and Planetary Lab at Univ. of Arizona released 1,005 new images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera, totaling 3.4 terabytes. The images cover the period of April - July, 2008.

UA has released 7,100 HiRISE images so far, totaling 26.9 terabytes.

There is a section on the HiRISE Web site with 3-D photos that are being used to evaluate potential landing sites.