Saturday, October 28, 2006

my favorite HiRISE image of the evening

I continue to be blown away by the quality, clarity, and awesomeness of the images being returned by the HiRISE camera on MRO. I was just looking at some images released October 5. My favorite of that bunch is this one of layers in the putative delta in Holden Crater. Wow!!! Just at an aesthetic level, the interplay of the light-toned layered rocks emerging from the dark mantling sands and dunes. It is just incredible. I was a little skeptical about how much more we would get from the 30 cm resolution of HiRISE vs. the 1.5 m resolution of MOC, but it really is a big difference.

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