University of Arizona article regarding NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing HiRISE images of the landing site of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANew...ArticleID=13357

again, amazing detail! very nice to see the lander

edit - didn't see the other thread

More pictures on : http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu//images/PSP/PSP_001414_1780/

I'm amazed to view Endurance again and the differents parts of the mission.

Am I alone in finding those HiRISEs of Oppy's various sites just too much enlarged? I don't want to inspect pixels of the micro-features at maximum resolution. I prefer to see a wider field of pixel-less view showing the whole context and a more naural view of the chute, landing retro blast, etc. Pixel fanatics can then zoom in as they please.

Overall, of course, I'm still delighted to see these places again at good resolution - not complaining about the great images, just how they are displayed

To be honest, if they're going to show the small items - they have to blow them up so that what might be only 10 x 10 pixels is more of a big central chunk of an image suitable for normal browsing without zooming in by the user.

They couldn't possibly please everyone - but they're doing the closest thing - giving everyone access to the whole damn thing

Doug

Could somebody cut the Endurance section from this image and post it at full res? I can and will but I wont be able to do it til the weekend.

ed

You can see many cropped pieces of the new Meridiani image in this thread.

Also, a quick overview at http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000782/

I think this better belongs here than in the MRO forum. This is a crop of the new hirise image showing part of northern Erebus crater. Clearly visible is a very nice cluster of minicraters, a metre or two across. Since they're so small I assume that they must be quite fresh not to have been covered by dust/sand.
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I wonder if there is any rover imagery that shows this cluster.