Ian
priscilla 1Satellite Images of Mars
June 11th 2007 11:03
The variations in the martial landscape are striking: northern plains flattened by lava flows contrast with the southern highlands, pitted and cratered by ancient impacts. The surface of Mars as seen from Earth is thus divided into two kinds of areas. The paler plains covered with dust and sand rich in reddish iron oxides were once thought of as Martian 'continents' and given names like Arabia Terra (land of Arabia) or Amazonis Planitia (Amazonian plain). The dark features were thought to be seas, hence their names Mare Erythraeum, Mare Sirenum and Aurorae Sinus. The largest dark feature seen from Earth is Syrtis Major.
Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus), at 26 km is the highest known mountain in the solar system. It is an extinct volcano in the vast upland region Tharsis, which contains several other large volcanoes. It is over three times the height of Mt. Everest which in comparison only stands at 8.848 km.
Mars is also scarred by a number of impact craters: a total of 43,000 craters with a diameter of 5 km or greater have been found.
Below are various satellite images of the Martian surface, you can see more here.
*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.
**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Mars.
Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus), at 26 km is the highest known mountain in the solar system. It is an extinct volcano in the vast upland region Tharsis, which contains several other large volcanoes. It is over three times the height of Mt. Everest which in comparison only stands at 8.848 km.
Mars is also scarred by a number of impact craters: a total of 43,000 craters with a diameter of 5 km or greater have been found.
Below are various satellite images of the Martian surface, you can see more here.
*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.
**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Mars.
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I want to go there....scotty, please...beam ME up!!
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Will probably get boring after like an hour
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HiRise is aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which has been orbiting Mars for 15 months.
The HiRise camera which takes these images consists of a 0.5 meter reflecting telescope similar to cameras on satellites orbiting Earth.
So images taken by HiRise are indeed "satellite images" as we are accustomed.
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I just don't understand what makes you think these satellite photos are different from satellite photos that we see of Earth?
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An example of typical images sent back are here:
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Not to mention the famous Victoria Crater shot:
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The images above are just fancy versions of the imaes taken, I don't see how its decietful, just ads colour to the reality.
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~not the person who was debating before