During three years in orbit, the german HRSC experiment covered an area of 45 million km² (one-third of the planet's surface) with a resolution of 10 to 20 meters per pixel.

The following image is centred at 78° north latitude and 89° east longitude. The image data were taken from a distance of about 450 kilometers with a resolution of about 21 meters per pixel in orbit 3695 (november 23, 2006).

New Frosty Crater:

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Can you post the link to the hires-Image please?
Cant find it at ESA

Thanks

Found the site. Here we go... http://www.dlr.de/mars/desktopdefault.aspx.../422_read-6855/

Correct. This was my source.

Thats stunning!

Stunning indeed!!! While some of us (including myself) have knocked ESA in the past for low-quantity output of results, the quality of their releases is never less than outstanding! There may well be a method to their madness...

Notice the apparent "peeling-off" of the terrain around the crater...LOTS of layers exposed here. It looks way too rough for a conventional lander and/or rover, but it would sure be a terrific target area for a balloon/dirigible (no, not a helicopter! )

Here's the english press release:

- The German HRSC onboard Mars Express now in its third year

That is such an incredible image!

What can an hiker and Marsmaniac dreams be like?
Something like this!

"Real" hiking maps are at 1/25.000 on Earth. What can we do at 1/200.000 ?

Helen had a good idea - once some DEMS are published, we could explore them with a moto-X simulator of some sort

Doug

Dude - seriously - the quoting.....some people!!! - Doug

I sure would love to see that Doug...

...Climber...You've got some at 1/50000...

This I didn't knew...

"Right now we covered 35 percent of the Martian surface for resolutions between 10m and 20m per pixel. We are just getting a mission extension for 2008 and 2009."