Tuesday, December 05, 2006
NASA Mars Orbiter Photographs Spirit and Vikings on the Ground
Taken from the NASA web site
NASA Mars Orbiter Photographs Spirit and Vikings on the Ground
12.04.06
New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show three additional NASA spacecraft that have landed on Mars: the Spirit rover active on the surface since January 2004 and the two Viking landers that successfully reached the surface in 1976. The orbiter's high-resolution camera took a dramatic photograph of Spirit's twin rover, Opportunity, at the edge of a Martian crater two months ago.
Besides providing new portraits of these robotic emissaries, the images provide scientists valuable high-resolution information about the surrounding terrain at each site. This aids both in interpreting other orbital data and in planning activities for surface missions. The new images are available online at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu . They are among the earliest from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's primary science phase, which began in November.
NASA Mars Orbiter Photographs Spirit and Vikings on the Ground
12.04.06
New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show three additional NASA spacecraft that have landed on Mars: the Spirit rover active on the surface since January 2004 and the two Viking landers that successfully reached the surface in 1976. The orbiter's high-resolution camera took a dramatic photograph of Spirit's twin rover, Opportunity, at the edge of a Martian crater two months ago.
Besides providing new portraits of these robotic emissaries, the images provide scientists valuable high-resolution information about the surrounding terrain at each site. This aids both in interpreting other orbital data and in planning activities for surface missions. The new images are available online at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu . They are among the earliest from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's primary science phase, which began in November.
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