Great news from the MRO team

I just got an email from the MRO team who operate the HIRISE camera.
It appears that in a few weeks they will be publishing EVERY photo the HIRISE has taken to date.
As you may be aware the MARS orbiter releases a dozen or so images every week. This is no where near what it actually logs. The published images on the JPL website are basically hand picked from the thousands of images the HIRISE camera takes. The full catalog will be published to this site soon. pds.jpl.nasa.gov...

Thats great news!
For us, the taxpayers that fund and care about space research.
And for the manufacturers of Large Hard Drives.

I pop up to the HIRISE site every Wednesday to see what it has to offer.
Usually 7 to 10 images per week.

Do you know if they package and sell these datasets?

Excellent pic showing the effect of weather on the surface. It's about 900kb and shows a region with "Dust Devil" activity.


Cheers,

Vic

Now if we could get ALL the pictures from all the sources at all the locations. It might need an external 250G hard drive to store it all, but it would be nice to have.

Better yet, a space picture total archive here on Space Exploration. (Just in case the pictures went "missing" in the future.)

Good find.

they must have hired extra staff to catch up on all the air brushing needed to cover up all the evidence.