Comments on: HiRISE!

By: Ginny

Ginny — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:06:51 +0000

Just an update to let you all know that we here at HiRISE have been updating the HiRISE Image viewer site after every HIRISE Image release. It’s true that there was a brief time when we were not updating the site, but we have been releasing new images for a while now. Check back and take a look! (http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/hirise_images/)

By: Stevo

Stevo — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:35:18 +0000

BTW. Putting that in context, I’m an Aussie who has been critical of a lot of what America has done in the world lately. This sort of thing is what you do so well and deserve to be very proud of.

This sort of marvellous mission and achievement contributes positively to the world and shows America in a really great perspective. I only wish you did more of it.

More power (and money) to you!

PS. Looking forward to the Shuttle launch too. Another area where you do indeed have the right stuff.

By: Stevo

Stevo — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:26:26 +0000

I’ll just add my WOW! & thanks to all theothers .

Well done, Mr Reed, well done. Thanks too Phil for bringing this to our attention.

This is science, exploration and America at its best.

By: Irishscribe

Irishscribe — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:59:01 +0000

I am just in awe. Mr. Reed–congradulations and thank you, the achievement of getting such a wonderful tool into orbit around Mars is one that leaves me speechless with admiration. I can’t wait for the day when a similar camera is sent to the Moon. Then we will be able to see the Apollo hardware in situ, and once and for all silence those annoying Moon Hoax Conspiracy headcases!

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:28:03 +0000

Timothy – groundbreaking work. Your instrument is making history every second.

Incidentally, if you look at the righthand section of the Cerberus Fossae trench, you can see a series of parallel dunes in the bottom of the trench that are exactly the same as the Hoagland “worms”. Except this is more obviously concave because of the view angle. Comparing the two makes it really obvious what they are.

By: Timothy Reed

Timothy Reed — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:14:08 +0000

“These pictures are beyond superb.”

You’re welcome. I’ll step up and take a measure of credit for the results. After spending three and a half years of my life developing HiRISE and personally installing and aligning every one of the imager’s optics, it’s rewarding to have both the scientific community and the lay community enthralled and excited by the initial small sample of what will be a vast wealth of areological data.

- Timothy Reed
HiRISE Optical Integration Team

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:34:13 +0000

That is absolutely phenomenal and takes my breath away.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:58:36 +0000

Anyone found any rusty machine parts or ruined fortifications yet….

By: Irishman

Irishman — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:15:45 +0000

Emily Lakdawalla said:
>Thereâ€™s no alternative to big file size if you want to enjoy the details in these incredible images.

Sure there is – cut them into a bunch of tiny pics, like Phil’s above. Of course, that makes viewing all the detail a lot more complicated, but it does reduce the individual file size.

By: Microsiervos

Microsiervos — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:13:04 +0000

Explora Marte desde tu navegador…

El equipo a cargo de la cÃ¡mara HiRISE de la Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acaba de empezar a publicar imÃ¡genes en su web, y son absoultamente espectaculares, como esta de Cerberus Fossae, en la que cada pixel representa unos 55 centÃmetros:……

By: A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz

A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:32:49 +0000

[...] “HiRISE“, no Bad Astronomy. O instrumento sensaÃ§Ã£o da MRO continua a dar que falar. Sobre este tema, ler tambÃ©m “Don’t Blame Me“, no Tom’s Astronomy Blog; [...]

By: bearcub

bearcub — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:06:37 +0000

Stunning pictures. Well worth my share of tax money.

These hi-res images are going to make it hard for *certain* people to keep insisting on “transport tubes” all over Mars. Of course, they’ll just claim that NASA blew them up.

By: Will. M.

Will. M. — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:46:16 +0000

I’m going to send this site address to the folks I know who still think spending money on space exploration is a waste of the government’s science budget (and their tax money), and to those few Creationists (who still speak to me). I simply cannot believe that these folks would remain unawed by these pix of a planet which is clearly at least as old as the solar system and certainly as old as Earth. I also wonder how the Creationists fix the age of the “6000 year old Earth” vs the REST of the solar system’s planets, given that the Bible doesn’t seem to mention them…

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:22:15 +0000

I was fooling around looking at the images, and realized Emily is right! I will update the blog entry now.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:52:38 +0000

On Google Maps I can’t even make out my house. This is much better. Though I still can’t see my house.

By: Emily Lakdawalla

Emily Lakdawalla — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:43:00 +0000

Just a warning — the images at http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/hirise_images/ are more than a month old already, and it’s my understanding that no more images are going to be added to this particular site, which was developed as sort of a Band-Aid until the HiRISE team gets their own “Zoomify” software up and running. If you want to see the newest images, go to the HiRISE Operations Center website at http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/.

There’s no alternative to big file size if you want to enjoy the details in these incredible images. Some of the latest ones are over a Gigabyte in size! I wonder what they spend on hosting…

By: RAF

RAF — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:43:21 +0000

There needs to be an alternative to the BIG FILE SIZE of these images…

Some of us are “stuck” with dial-up, ya know.

But from what I have seen, words really can not convey just how amazing this is.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:18:55 +0000

Magnus, this is a trough in an ancient rift valley. My guess is that it’s a collapse feature, sort of like a fault (though Mars doesn’t have plate tectonics).

Bill, I’ve fiddled with the Google Mars site, but this one just has the phenomenal resolution. If Google adds these images then it’ll be even better, but until then this has my vote.

By: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:57:52 +0000

On the HiRISE site, you can pan and zoom in on the images. This is really slick, and fun to do. Itâ€™s like Google maps, for Mars!

Phil, you sound like you don’t know about mars.google.com.

It doesn’t have HiRISE’s resolution, but its maps combine images from lots of data sets, plus named features, and it’s mighty handy for touring Mars.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:02:14 +0000

Wow! Dude! I think I can see my house,,,oh, wait, no, that’s just MY bad Dogs,,,

GAry 7

By: ioresult

ioresult — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:00:47 +0000

Google has a maps site with mars data from the MOLA, MOC and THEMIS instruments. Let’s hope they’ll also add HiRISE with that.
http://www.google.com/mars/

By: Daffy

Daffy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:59:41 +0000

That gets a 10.0 on my Wow-o-Meter!!!!!

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:09:19 +0000

Very cool. Definitely going on my bookmark list.

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:08:23 +0000

Wow! I’m bookmarking the HiRISE site!

By: Magnus

Magnus — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:45:00 +0000

You’re right, these images are great. Just out of curiosity, what are we actually wathing? To a complete non-expert like me it looks like an old river that has dried out. Is that correct?