This photo, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) look quite like aerial photos of an Earth desert dotted with shrub growth. But these sand dunes are in the southern hemisphere of Mars. A Hungarian research team, which has been analyzing the photos (and other photos of the same area ov...
Figure 1. Mars Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope:This is one of the best photos of Mars taken from our planet, obtained in June 2001 when Mars was only 68 million kilometers away. The resolution is about 20 kilometers—much better than can be obtained with ground-based telescopes ...
In browsing the first new batch of 2018 photos taken by the Curiosity rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), researcher Barry DiGregorio speculated on whether the Red Planet robot found trace fossils on Mars. DiGregorio is a research fellow for the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology in the Unit...
The images that first got scientists speculating came from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), a camera that can capture minute landscape details and geologic structures. It's one of six instruments that make up the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was launched with the missi...
aThe fort's 10-foot walls are in the shape of a star,and within those walls,there are some of the original structures built,over a century ago. 堡垒的10英尺墙壁是以星的形式,并且在那些墙壁之内,有某些原始的结构被建立,在一个世纪前。[translate] ...
The Perseverance landing is equipped with advanced hazard-avoidance technology, allowing it to compare realtime photos of the surface with orbital maps and change the trajectory as required to ensure a safe landing.NASA/JPL-Caltech "It matches up landmarks that it sees with its camera, with it...
You’ve seen the photos of Mars from the surface: The red-tinted dust, the sharp mountains, the desolate rock formations. For as long as we’ve had rovers on the red planet, since Viking 1 rolled onto martian soil in the 1970s, we’ve been fascinated by imagery of this alien world....
The image archive has hundreds of photos of Mars taken from orbit, showing the huge range of geographical features and diverse formations found on the planet. In the collage of images below, you can see everything from dust and water over the north pole (first image, top row), to an unu...
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This is ofcourse not the first time people have claimed to find evidence ofstructures onMars. Most famously, American author Richard Hoagland claimed to find aso-called FaceonMars ? which turned out to be merely a trickof the light in a very low-resolution photograph. If theFarsight Institute...