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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Movie: Flying Over Spirit’s Work Site

By SpaceRef Editor
March 14, 2007
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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Movie: Flying Over Spirit’s Work Site
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Images of the “Columbia Hills” region inside Mars’ Gusev Crater, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provided detailed, three-dimensional information that was used to create this animation of a hypothetical flyover. NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been exploring this range of hills since 2004.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/U.S. Geological Survey

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