Phoenix landing event!
Join us this Sunday, May 25th from 3-8 PM on the University of Arizona campus for a celebration of the landing of our sister mission, Phoenix. The Kuiper building, Sonett lobby, (that’s where HiROC is located, and where we’ll be) and Flandrau planetarium will be open to the public. There will be speakers from the Phoenix and HiRISE teams, children’s activities, NASA TV running for live updates on the status of the lander, telescopes set up for viewing the sun, tours of the buildings, planetarium shows, and cake! 
Detailed schedule of events:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/calendar/calendar.php?ID=107
We’ll be thinking of the Phoenix team during this critical step – we’ve got our fingers crossed, wishing you the best!
May 24th, 2008 at 10:11 am
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May 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Godspeed, everyone.
May 25th, 2008 at 1:34 am
The cake is a lie!
July 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Just wondering if there were any levels of resolution for the images between the full JP2 resolution and the much smaller(file size) resolution…I have no application that can open the JP2s…and I want the best quality I can get
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi Mike,
You might find our “browse” products useful; those are reduced resolution JPEGs that are more manageable. Even those files can be pretty big, though. Because HiRISE images are so huge, I’m not sure intermediate products would be very useful – a lot of software has trouble managing files that large, and people generally don’t have the disk space or bandwidth to download them. The “Quicklook” JP2 products are lossy compressed, so they’re smaller, but they still contain almost all the detail of the originals.
For applications, have you tried the IAS Viewer? It’s very easy to use, we recommend it. You can download it here: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/tools/ (click on “IAS Viewer”). Then you don’t have to download the huge files, you just pull over the parts you want.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:36 am
a fantastic achievement monumental
July 25th, 2008 at 6:59 am
a great achievement con grats to all your team
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:34 am
The times below for the Phoenix spacecraft events on May 25 are for a nominal scenario. Remaining navigational adjustments before May 25 could shift the times by up to about half a minute. In addition, the times for some events relative to others could vary by several seconds due to variations in the Martian atmosphere and other factors. For some events, a “give or take” range of times is given, covering 99 percent of possible scenarios from the atmospheric entry time. For events at Mars, times are listed in “Earth-receive time” (ERT) rather than “spacecraft event time” (SCET)