Yes, the first eight pics chosen by public and imaged as a part of the HiWish project using the HiRISE camera on NASA?s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), has been released . It consists of collapsing volcanoes, boulder strewn plains and dune-filled valleys on the red planet.
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First 8 images which have been imaged are of Samara valles which extends in total over 1,000 kilometres across the southern highlands
gently sloping towards Mars? northern lowlands in Chryse Basin , thousands of boulders lining the rim of an ancient crater in the region Utopia Planitia ,
northern lowlands and the southern highland lobate debris apron in Deuteronilus Mensae is full of pure ice ,
Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System, a seven kilometre high cliff is crumbling underneath the weight of the volcano, bumpy, eroded terrain found on the floor of Palos Crater,
weathered by water erosion from a time long ago when the a river running in the 180-kilometre long valley Tinto Vallis breached the walls of Palos Crate ,dust concealed in a hill outside a 30-kilometre wide crater in Zephyria Tholus which is a hill which has uncertain origin ,
icy layers at Mar's north pole
and region filled with plateaus and mesas called Aureum Chaos reveals volcanic and sedimentary deposits stacked up in layers along cliff faces .
Enjoy these amazing pics of Mars !
Full story at http://astronomyforeveryone.blogspot.com/2010/04/has-your-hiwish-come-true.html
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