Looking Over Opportunity's Shoulder on Mars

HiRISE Team Begins Releasing a Flood of Mars Images

“The University of Arizona-based team that operates the high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in conjunction with NASA, is releasing the first of what will be a non-stop flood of incredibly detailed Mars images taken during the spacecraft’s two-year primary science mission. The High Resolution Science Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera took almost 100 images during the first two weeks of its main science mission, which began Nov. 7. … HiRISE began a new imaging cycle last week (Nov. 19) and begins another next week (Dec. 3). Over the next couple of weeks, the camera is targeting “all the easy-to-find hardware on Mars,” McEwen said. That includes NASA’s rover Spirit, the Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers, and Mars Pathfinder.”