New interactivemosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail NASAJPL
, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter . Taken by the veteran spacecraft's black-and-white Context Camera, or CTX, the images cover nearly 270 square feet of surface per pixel.the highest-resolution global image of the Red Planet ever created. If it were printed out, this 5.
CTX is among three cameras aboard MRO, which is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. One of those cameras, the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment , provides color images of surface features as small as a dining room table. In contrast, CTX provides a broader view of terrain around those features, helping scientists understand how they're related.
Laura Kerber, a Mars scientist at JPL, provided feedback on the new mosaic as it took shape."I've wanted something like this for a long time," Kerber said."It's both a beautiful product of art and also useful for science."
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