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Mars -Thousands of new images
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Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter

Thousands of newly relesed images from Mars. More than 1,500telescopic observations by NASA's Reconnaisance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the red planet.

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Pyroxene rich terrain

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter recorded these images from the month of April through early August of this year.

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Crater with light center

The camera team at the University of Arizona, Tucson, releases several featured images each week and periodically releases much larger sets of new images, such as the batch posted today.

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layered alunite

Each full image from HiRISE covers a strip of Martian ground 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) wide, about two to four times that long, showing details as small as 1 meter, or yard, across.

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Dark matter on Olympus Mon

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been studying Mars with an advanced set of instruments since 2006. It has returned more data about the planet than all other past and current missions to Mars combined.

Credits: These are NASA/JPL/university of Arizona images.
See full text and all 1,500 images at Mars Daily.com.

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Thousan....lution_999.html

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