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boston.com - 27 days ago
Martian landscapes
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Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years ...

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We're Not So Different, Earth and Mars [Landscapes]
Gizmodo — Here are two galleries for you, both of photos taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It's amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. [Wired Science and Big Picture] ...

Martian landscapes
MAKE Magazine — Martian landscapes - The Big Picture @ Boston.com via Waxy. Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing ...

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GMSV — ... of the imaginary continent Orcura; from The Big Picture, a collection of stunning Martian landscapes ; and from Eating the Road, a guide to ...

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