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In the full-resolution color image, Earth was 90 pixels across and the Moon was 24 pixels across from a distance of 142 million km. [7] On May 25, 2008, HiRISE imaged NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander parachuting down to the surface of Mars. It was the first time that one spacecraft imaged the final descent of another spacecraft onto a planetary body.
Mars is often referred to as the "Red Planet" because of the rusty, reddish-orange sandscape blanketing the planet. That comes into sharp focus in our first color photo snapped by the Mars ...
Mars Color Imager on the right side. The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) is a wide-angle, relatively low-resolution camera built for Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. MARCI views the surface of Mars in five visible and two ultraviolet bands. Each day, MARCI collects about 84 images and produces a global map with pixel resolutions ...
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The parachute has a different shape in the Nov. 1 image than in the Oct. 25 one, apparently from shifting in the wind. Similar shifting was observed in the parachute of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission during the first six months after the Mars arrival of that mission's Curiosity rover in 2012 .
NASA followed this up on Tuesday with more mind-boggling photos from the great expanse of outer space. The "deep field" image gleans a look at a point in space 4.6 billion light-years away from Earth.
English: Near-infrared image from the framing camera on NASA's Dawn taken near the point of closest approach to Mars on Feb. 17, 2009, during Dawn's gravity assist flyby. The image was taken for calibration purposes and shows a portion of northwest margin of Tempe Terra, Mars.
There's no Google Earth for Mars — no way to zoom in for a closer look at your Martian neighbors' new deck or pickup truck — but Caltech scientists have spent six years composing a 3D image of ...