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The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The 65 kg, $40 million (USD) instrument was built under the direction of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.. It consists of a 0.5 meter reflecting telescope, the largest of any deep space mission, which allows it to take pictures with resolutions up to 0.3 m, resolving objects about a meter across, or the size of a beachball.

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Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...


Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard ...


Channels from Hale Crater

Channels from Mars Hale Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ...


New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.


Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...


Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on ...


Oblique View of Victoria Crater

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Gets New View of Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more ...


Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...


Novel Superlens Offers a Simplified Subwavelength Imaging Technique

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first demonstrations of subwavelength imaging just a few years ago, scientists have been making great improvements, developing a variety of new methods for realizing high-resolution imaging. Recently, ...


HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars

HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from the HiRISE experiment detail patterns of dust carried by gas from beneath the seasonal ice cap.


First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron ...


New Views of Martian Moon and Surface

New Views of Martian Moon and Surface

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from two observations of the Martian moon Deimos and more than 600 observations of Mars, acquired by the high-resolution camera (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, became ...


New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...


Evidence of ancient hot springs on Mars detailed

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New Rochelle, NY, February 12, 2009 -Data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest the discovery of ancient springs in the Vernal Crater, sites where life forms may have evolved on Mars, according to a report in ...


A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries

A Better View for Surgeons During Minimally Invasive Surgeries

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of ...



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