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'Airplane view' of Mars yields stunning images

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Victoria Crater as seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The crater is about half a mile in diameter.

(CNN) -- What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window?
It must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, which operates HiRISE, has just released a new batch of these photos taken in the last several months.
You can check out the full set here

HiRISE | PDS Release: September 2009

Entire article: 'Airplane view' of Mars yields stunning images - CNN.com
 
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