News tagged with high resolution
Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ‘wow’ ...
Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur ...
Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.
Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(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 Mars Hale Crater
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Gets New View of Victoria Crater
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Unique sky survey brings new objects into focus
Jun 15, 2009 |
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An innovative sky survey has begun returning images that will be used to detect unprecedented numbers of powerful cosmic explosions-called supernovae-in distant galaxies, and variable brightness stars in our ...
Novel Superlens Offers a Simplified Subwavelength Imaging Technique
May 11, 2009 |
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(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, ...
General Electric Develops a 500GB Optical Disc
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- G.E. has unveiled a 500 GB micro-holographic disc that is the same size as existing DVD's. The storage capacity is equivalent to 100 DVD's and is aimed at the archive industry but eventually ...
