Pictures Of Mars

[Seraphim]

Cant wait to see the better color photos...they should arrive in about 2days.

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This mosaic image taken by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows a 360 degree panoramic view of the rover on the surface of Mars.

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This image taken by the hazard avoidance camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's front wheels in stowed configuration.

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This image taken by the hazard avoidance camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's rear lander petal and, in the background, the Martian horizon. Spirit took the picture right after successfully landing on the surface of Mars.

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This is one of the first images beamed back to Earth shortly after the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit landed on the red planet.

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This mosaic image taken by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit represents an overhead view of the rover on the surface of Mars.

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The designated landing site for the first Mars Exploration Rover mission is Gusev Crater, seen here in its geological context from NASA Viking images.


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The designated landing site for the second Mars Exploration Rover mission is Meridiani Planum, seen here in its geological context from NASA Viking images.



These ones arent new but I thought Id post them anyways...

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Put on a happy face
The "Happy Face Crater" - officially named Galle Crater - puts a humorous spin on the "Face on Mars" controversy. This image was provided by the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.

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The face of Mars
The Hubble Space Telescope focuses on the full disk of Mars, with a head-on view of a dark feature known as Syrtis Major. Hubble astronomers could make out features as small as 12 miles wide.

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Red, white and blue planet
Two decades before Pathfinder, the Viking 1 lander sent back America"s first pictures from the Martian surface. This 1976 picture shows off the lander"s U.S. flag and a Bicentennial logo as well as the planet"s landscape.

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Grand canyon
This is a composite of Viking orbiter images that shows the Valles Marineris canyon system. The entire system measures more than 1,875 miles long and has an average depth of 5 miles.

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Red rover
A mosaic of eight pictures shows the Pathfinder probe"s Sojourner rover just after it rolled off its ramp. At lower right you can see one of the airbags that cushioned Pathfinder"s landing on July 4, 1997.


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Twin Peaks at their peak
The Pathfinder probe focuses on Twin Peaks, two hills of modest height on the Martian horizon. Each peak rises about 100 feet above the surrounding rock-littered terrain.


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Blue horizon
A Martian sunset reverses the colors you"d expect on Earth: Most of the sky is colored by reddish dust hanging in the atmosphere, but the scattering of light creates a blue halo around the sun itself.


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Two-faced Mars
The image at left, captured by a Viking orbiter in the 1970s, sparked speculation that Martians had constructed a facelike monument peering into space. But the sharper image at right, sent back in 1998 by Mars Global Surveyor, spoiled the effect.


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A monster of a mountain
Mars highest mountain, an inactive volcano dubbed Olympus Mons, rises as high as three Everests and covers roughly the same area as the state of Arizona. Mars Global Surveyor took this wide-angle view.


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Pockmarked moon
Mars Global Surveyor snapped this picture of Phobos, the larger of Mars" two potato-shaped moons. Phobos" average width is just 14 miles. The image highlights Phobos" 6-mile-wide Stickney Crater.

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From Mars with love
This valentine from Mars, as seen by Mars Global Surveyor, is actually a pit formed by a collapse within a straight-walled trough known in geological terms as a graben. The pit spans 1.4 miles at its widest point.

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Sandy swirls
An image taken by Mars Global Surveyor shows a section of the northern sand dunes on Mars" surface. The dunes, composed of dark sand grains, encircle the north polar cap.

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Curls of clouds
Global Surveyor focuses on a storm system over Mars" north polar region. The north polar ice cap is the white feature at the top center of the frame. Clouds that appear white consist mainly of water ice. Clouds that appear orange or brown contain dust.

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Swiss cheese
Global Surveyor captured images of a frost pattern at Mars' south polar ice cap that looks like Swiss cheese. The south polar cap is the only region on the Red Planet to contain such formations.

[Andyman]

That is amazing. To think of what mankind is capable of and what we have accomplished and yet on a deperssing note think of the contrast how at the exact same time we are at times the most unintelligent life form on the planet. :(

How Depressing

[Ratamacue]

I quote our good friend Arnold: "it is in your nature to destroy yourselves."

Crazy stuff though, to think that we're able to send a robot millions of miles away and get images from an entirely new world. Just wait for those primitive little green Martians to crawl out of their holes and see this little robot driving around drilling rocks.

[Kriz]

Very nice pics, can't wait to see the new ones too !

[Andyman]

Awesome pics man keep up the good work :D

[Seraphim]

Pull out your old 3D glasses, I manage to find mine :lol:

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This is a version of the first 3-D stereo image from the rover's navigation camera, showing only the view from the left stereo camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. The left and right camera images are combined to produce a 3-D image.


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This is a version of the first 3-D stereo image from the rover's navigation camera, showing only the view from the right stereo camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. The left and right camera images are combined to produce a 3-D image.

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The bright white dot in this image taken by the panorama camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is the Sun, used to help point the rover's high-gain antenna toward Earth. The inset shows the Sun magnified five times.

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The rust color of the martian landscape is apparent in this low-resolution thumbnail image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. This image is part of a larger image currently stored onboard the rover in its memory.

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This image, taken by the descent image motion estimation system camera located on the bottom of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's lander, shows a view of Gusev Crater as the lander descends to Mars. The picture is taken at an altitude of 1690 meters. Numerous small impact craters can be seen on the surface of the planet. These images help the onboard software to minimize the lander's horizontal velocity before its bridle is cut, and it falls freely to the surface of Mars.

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This image, taken by the descent image motion estimation system camera located on the bottom of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's lander, shows a view of Gusev Crater as the lander descends to Mars. The picture is taken at an altitude of 1985 meters. Numerous small impact craters can be seen on the surface of the planet. These images help the onboard software to minimize the lander's horizontal velocity before its bridle is cut, and it falls freely to the surface of Mars.

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This image, taken by the descent image motion estimation system camera located on the bottom of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's lander, shows a view of Gusev Crater as the lander descends to Mars. The picture is taken at an altitude of 1400 meters. Numerous small impact craters can be seen on the surface of the planet. These images help the onboard software to minimize the lander's horizontal velocity before its bridle is cut, and it falls freely to the surface of Mars.


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This image, taken previously by the thermal emission spectrometer onboard Mars Global Surveyor, highlights the same cluster of craters captured by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as it descends to Mars.


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This mosaic image taken by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been reprocessed to project a clear overhead view of the rover on the surface of Mars.

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This mosaic image taken by the navigation camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been further processed, resulting in a significantly improved 360 degree panoramic view of the rover on the surface of Mars.

[Jack Mehoff]

Look like a god damn west desert in Utah

[Seraphim]

Cant seem to find the color photos on the official site, so these will have to suffice.


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An image released January 6, 2004, taken by the Rover Spirit shows a memorial plaque placed on the spacecraft dedicated to the Space Shuttle Columbia's astronauts and the STS-107 mission. NASA (news - web sites) Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced January 6, 2004 plans to name the landing site of the Mars Spirit Rover in honor of the astronauts who died on the Columbia in February 2003. The area in the vast flatland of the Gusev Crater where Spirit landed January 3, 2004, will be called the Columbia Memorial Station. B/W ONLY MEDIUM RESOLUTION FROM SOURCE NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY *******/NASA/JPL/Handout


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This image shows marks in the Martian soil (upper right) made by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's airbags during their final deflation and retraction. The picture was taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and released the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California January 6, 2004. (MEDIUM RESOLUTION FROM SOURCE, NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY) *******/NASA (news - web sites)/JPL/Cornell University/Handout *******


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This image, taken by the navigation camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the airbags used to protect the rover during landing. The picture was released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California Janaury 6, 2004. MEDIUM RESOLUTION FROM SOURCE BW ONLY NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY *******/ NASA (news - web sites)/JPL/Handout


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This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California January 6, 2004. It is the highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet. (MEDIUM RESOLUTION FROM SOURCE, NO SALES) EDITORIAL USE ONLY *******/NASA (news - web sites)/JPL/Cornell University/Handout


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The smooth surfaces of angular and rounded rocks seen in this image of the martian terrain released by NASA (news - web sites) Tuesday Jan. 6, 2004 may be the result of wind-polishing debris. The pictue was taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. NASA unveiled a breathtaking color photo of the surface of Mars, the sharpest photograph ever taken on the surface of Mars. NASA scientists called the picture a 'postcard,' sent across 105 million miles of space to Earth. (AP Photo/photo released by NASA, JPL, Cornell University)


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This image released by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California January 6, 2004 highlights streaks or tails of loose debris in the Martian soil, which reveal the direction of prevailing winds. The picture was taken by the Mars Exploration rover's panoramic camera on the planet Mars. MEDIUM RESOLUTION FROM SOURCE NO SALES EDITORIAL USE ONLY *******/NASA (news - web sites)/JPL/Cornell University/Handout

[Ratamacue]

For those interested, here are some (the only?) photos of the Venusian surface:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venus/venera9-10.jpg

Surface photographs from the Soviet landers Venera 9 and 10, circa 1975.
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Surface photographcs from the Soviet lander Venera 13 and 14, circa 1982.

Seems like the landers were never able to last very long given the atmospheric pressure on Venus (92-times that of sea level on Earth). I couldn't find any other images from the surface on nasa.gov

[NcDeuce]

I got dibs on any hot chicks they find.

[Pandy]

Miss this one...

http://www.photovault.com/Link/Universe/Planets/Venus/UPVVolume01/UPVV01P02_14RIGHT.jpg

I say if the Russian can do it... us Americans can do it! :D

[Seraphim]

I didnt really missed it, at the time the photos were not up yet on the official site. BTW I stopped posting pics of mars...