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Home → Blog → HiRise camera will take high quality photographs of Mars

HiRise camera will take high quality photographs of Mars

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

Have you ever dreams of going into space? How about to hop over to Mars and see what it’s like? Well, even if you don’t get there yourself you can at least have the next best thing pretty soon — the most high quality images of the red planet ever taken will be beamed back down to Earth in the coming months. To get them, NASA is sending the largest camera ever sent out of Earth’s orbit. It’s called HiRise, and it takes images that are so high quality that just one of them would take 1,200 regular computer monitors to displau the whole thing! Even though the camera will be in orbit about 300 kilometers above Mars’s surface, it will be able to identify and photograph objects as small as a coffee table on the planet’s surface. So, if you can’t get into orbit yourself, at least we have HiRise to let us know what it would look like!

Source: High-Resolution Camera to Survey Mars

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