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Life on Mars Careful--they have clipboards and could be hostile. ESA / IPMB If you consider a meticulously curated sandpit in a Moscow suburb a destination, then the Mars500 team has finally arrived. After more than 250 days confined to a wood-paneled simulated space capsule, the international crew put down its landing craft on the “Martian” surface over the weekend and, donning Russian Orlan spacesuits, executed its first walk on the red planet today.
Mars500 Crew 'Lands' on Mars, Begins Spacewalking the Martian Surface | Popular Science
Pits, Flows, Other Scenes in New Set of Mars Images - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This enhanced image shows the inside of a rimless pit about 180 meters (591 feet) in diameter, northwest of the mountain Ascraeus Mons in the northern hemisphere of Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortment of Martian environments. Strewn boulders and rippled sand lie on the floors of two shadowy, steep-walled pits. Mounds in another region appear to be mud volcanoes, which may have brought fine-grained material to the surface from deep underground. In the Tharsis volcanic region, the intersection of a lava flow with a trough caused by ground collapse allows seeing whether the flow happened before or after the collapse.
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Multimedia
File name code Below is a chart that will help you decode the 27 character file names associated with the Mars Exploration Rover mission. There is enough info below to allow you to make stereograms and construct color pictures and determine when and where the raw images were taken. Enjoy! ---- Character Function 1 Spacecraft ID 1 = Opportunity 2 = Spirit 2 Camera F = Forward HAZCAM R = Rear HAZCAM N = NAVCAM P = PANCAM M = Microscopic Imager E - EDLcam (Descent Imager) 3 to 11 Spacecraft clock This is the number of seconds since January 1, 2000 at 11:58:55.816 UTC. 12 to 14 Product type Product types are differentiated as having camera-induced distortion removed (geometrically "linearized") or not removed (nominal), and, as being thumbnail-sized or not.
Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home
Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ago. >>