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Mmmm, Mars. And lots of it, too! The team from one of our all-time favorite scientific instruments, the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released a big batch of images taken from April 5 to May 6, 2010, and they are now available on NASA’s Planetary Data System and on the HiRISE website. This includes over six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape as seen from orbit, including scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges, steep cliffs, or these unusual dunes, above, in Desher Vallis.
Each of the 629 new images cover an area of several square miles on Mars and reveals details as small as desks.
HiRISE is made of awesome, and is one of six instruments on MRO,which reached Mars in 2006.
Source: JPL