Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launches NASA mission to Mars
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HiRISE, the most powerful camera to leave Earth's orbit, will take ultra-sharp photographs that cover 3.5-mile-wide swaths of the Martian landscape, returning images with a 20,000-by-60,000 pixel resolution. The images will show features down to 1 meter on the surface of Mars clearly from an orbital height of about 190 miles.
Stretching over 2,500 miles long and seven miles deep, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon in the solar system — and NASA’s HiRISE camera just spotted something new inside it. High-resolution images show collapsed cliffs,
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Mars orbiter spies 'barcode' aftermath of rare Red Planet avalanche caused by meteoroid impact
On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty slopes of Mars.