HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA)
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High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA). We are based out of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.
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Last Seen Profiles
NASA Perseverance on the Ground in Color
Perseverance can be seen in this enhanced HiRISE color image at its landing site, six days after touchdown, doing system checks. The site appears to be covered in loose dark material with brighter material underneath.
NASA/JPL/UArizona
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The Beauty of Flight! HiRISE captured this image of
@NASAPersevere
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In less than 60 sols, we’ll find out: Drones in space: Can a helicopter take flight on Mars?
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The Red Color of Mars is Only Millimeters Thick –
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Nasa’s Curiosity rover: 3,000 days on Mars –
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HiPOD 21 May 21: Curiosity Rover Climbing Mount Mercou
The Curiosity rover has driven more than 25 km to date. The rover is currently ascending “Mont Mercou,” a broad outcrop of rocks on the northern flank of “Mt. Sharp” near the center of the crater.
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New Planet Discovered around Proxima Centauri, Star nearest the Sun –
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Perseverance Hardware on the Ground
This first HiRISE image of the
@NASAPersevere
Rover on the surface of Mars also shows many parts of the descent system that got it safely there.
See update in our descent picture caption:
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For those wanting a version of Curiosity without its halo.
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Magnetic Field around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time
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NASA prepares for a historic helicopter flight — on Mars
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Titan’s largest crater might be the perfect cradle for life –
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Mars helicopter Ingenuity expected to take flight in early April
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Like the Ramans, HiRISE does things in 3s! We’ve successfully imaged hardware descending three times: Phoenix in 2008 (top); Curiosity in 2012 (middle); and now, Perseverance!
See other special obersvations here:
(HT:
@jj_marlow
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A Lake in a Martian Crater was Once Filled by Glacial Runoff
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Newly discovered glaciers on Mars may help humans settle on the Red Planet one day –
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Colonizing Mars Could Speed up Human Evolution
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HiRISE Epigrammata
“Some days it’s melange; some days it’s bitter dirt.”
—Rakian aphorism (Heretics of Dune)
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Red Dwarfs Aren’t So Bad (for Planets) After All –
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Ice at the moon’s poles might have come from ancient volcanoes –
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Astrophysicists detect first black hole-neutron star mergers –
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5,000 Exoplanets! NASA Confirms a Cosmic Milestone
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Cold planets exist throughout our galaxy, even in the galactic bulge, research suggests -
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The Milky Way’s Local Arm is Longer Than We Thought -
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Better call SG-1: Asteroid Apophis Pays Earth a Visit This Week –
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Today marks 15 years since MRO entered Mars orbit.
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
cc:
@BallAerospace
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50 years ago, astronomers were chipping away at Pluto’s mass –
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Any aliens orbiting these 2,000 stars could spot Earth crossing the Sun –
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Laser experiments suggest helium rain falls on Jupiter –
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New class of habitable exoplanets represent a big step forward in the search for life --
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Perseverance on the Ground
Each inset is about 200 meters (650 feet) across: Perseverance, the parachute & back shell, the remains of descent stage (skycrane) and the heat shield.
See update in our descent picture caption:
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How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits –
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China Lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars in a Major First for the Country –
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After long shutdown, giant radio telescope array set to resume observations -
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We see you! Our image of the
@NASAInSight
lander and its hardware on Elysium Planitia.
Read the caption:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
#Mars
#science
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Dark matter map reveals hidden bridges between galaxies
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Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests –
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HiPOD (12 Dec 2017): Ridges in Meridiani Planum. These ridges are concentric around an impact crater. Are these faults? (274 km above the surface).
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These are the first visible-light images of Venus’ surface captured from space
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You know at this point, the Shadows are just flaunting it in everyone’s face.
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NASA’s Curiosity Takes Step Toward Solving Mars Methane Mystery –
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UAE's Hope Spacecraft Captures Mars' Beautiful Glowing Auroras –
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Dwarf planet Vesta a window to the early solar system –
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Unlocking the History of Globular Cluster Messier 5 –
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An ancient exploding comet may explain why glass litters part of Chile: An airburst over the Atacama Desert 12,000 years ago melted the ground into glass, scientists say
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New to HiRISE? New to Mars? With over 68,000 images, it might be hard to figure out where to start, but our collection of captioned images is a good place:
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Water-ice Clouds Could Have Warmed Early Mars -
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Long-Awaited Muon Physics Experiment Nears Moment of Truth -
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Chlorine and Water are in the Air in Martian Summertime –
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Methane in plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life? –
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NEW: Hanging Sand Dunes within Coprates Chasma
These types of dune fields are located among canyon wall slopes on Mars.
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Our descent image is the product of scores of people who worked very hard to make it all happen. There were no guarantees that we could get an image with the rover in it. It was an incredibly complex operation that went flawlessly.
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Jupiter Whacked Again? Japanese Astronomers Record Possible Impact –
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“Liquid Water” below Martian Surface Might Be Clay –
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Iron Volcanos: Maybe Not Science Fiction After All
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Neutron Stars Have Micro Mountains, Astronomers Find –
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HiRISE Epigrammata
“The world is wide to everyone.” – Welsh proverb
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HiPOD: A One-Kilometer Crater on the Floor of Saheki Crater –
NASA/JPL/UArizona
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How do scientists calculate the age of a star?
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This is also how it all started on the machine planet VGER encountered, by the way.
#justsayin
#machinelife
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There's no life in the clouds of Venus, study says. Jupiter might be different –
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Almost prophetic.
This is the very first simulated image of a black hole, calculated using a 1960s punch card IBM 7040 computer and plotted by hand by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.
#BlackHoleWeek
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Space rocks may have bounced off baby Earth, but slammed into Venus –
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Some dead stars may harbor enough uranium to set off a thermonuclear bomb
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HiRISE Epigrammata
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
― Confucius
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HiRISE Epigrammata
“Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.”
— Thucydides
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HiPOD 1 Jan 2020: Here’s Looking at You, Mars
Our first HiPOD of 2020: a lovely crater with an eroded rim, but highly visible bedrock within. Our goal is to study some possible recurring streaks on the crater’s slopes.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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NASA Probe Finds Higher Chance of Asteroid Bennu Striking Earth
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