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November 22, 2024

You can now explore the highest-res map of Mars ever made…If you printed it out, it would be larger than the Rose Bowl stadium. – April 11, 2023 at 08:57AM

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Using 110,000 images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), researchers at Caltech have created an interactive map of Mars that lets anyone explore the surface of the Red Planet in unprecedented detail. “For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said Rich Zurek, leader of the MRO project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “This mosaic is a wonderful new way to explore some of the imagery that we’ve collected.” “The goal is to lower the barriers for people who are interested in exploring Mars.” JAY DICKSON The upgrade: To create the…

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