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HiRISE Image TRA_000896_2220

Image TRA_000896_2220 was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on October 5, 2006. The complete image is centered at 41.7 degrees latitude, 81.5 degrees East longitude. The range to the target site was 296.8 km (185.5 miles). At this distance the image scale ranges from 29.7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 118.8 cm/pixel (with 4 x 4 binning). The image shown here has been map-projected to 25 cm/pixel and north is up. The image was taken at a local Mars time of 3:18 PM and the scene is illuminated from the west with a solar incidence angle of 46 degrees, thus the sun was about 44 degrees above the horizon. At a solar longitude of 116.2 degrees, the season on Mars is Northern Summer.

Images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment and additional information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are available online at:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/

or

http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.

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Full-Scale JP2 25691
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The highest resolution image is provided in the JPEG-2000 (JP2) format. A JP2 viewer application and browser plug-in may be freely obtained for Mac OS X and Windows platforms: ExpressView by LizardTech, a Celartem Technology Inc. company.

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