{"id":6086,"date":"2009-08-13T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/13\/new-very-cool-image-of-vic-cra\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T19:26:46","slug":"new-very-cool-image-of-vic-cra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/new-very-cool-image-of-vic-cra\/","title":{"rendered":"New, Very Cool Image of Vic Crater, Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look closely at this picture of Victoria Crater on Mars. Clicking on the picture will give you a really big file, but a much better look. There are a number of things you can see in this view of Victoria that you could not see on earlier version because this is a somewhat oblique view. The details are in the press release I reproduce below the fold. But the other thing you can see that is REALLY FREAKIN’ COOL is the mars rover tracks running along one side of the crater! Go ahead, see if you can find them!
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Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View of Martian Crater<\/em> <\/p>\n

TUCSON, Ariz. — The high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the Martian crater that a rover explored for two years.<\/p>\n

The new view of Victoria Crater shows layers on steep crater walls, difficult to see from straight overhead, plus wheel tracks left by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between September 2005 and August 2007. The orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera shot it at an angle comparable to looking at landscape from an airplane window. Some of the camera’s earlier, less angled images of Victoria Crater aided the rover team in choosing safe routes for Opportunity and contributed to joint scientific studies.<\/p>\n

More info and picture here. <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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