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19.01.2004
HRSC Press Release #002 - Canyonlands (orbit 0018)
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This picture was taken on 14 January 2004 from ESA's Mars Express satellite by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) under the responsibility of the Principal Investigator Prof. Gerhard Neukum. It was processed by the Institute for Planetary Research of theGerman Aerospace Center (DLR), also involved in the development of the camera, and by the Institute for Geosciences at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
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The picture (top) shows a portion of the 1000 km long and 50-70 km wide swath which was taken on 14 January 2004 in south-north direction across the Grand Canyon of Mars (Valles Marineris) during one of the orbits of Mars Express and which is the first image of its kind in terms of size, resolution, color, and 3D ever taken by a camera in Mars orbit. The total area of the image swath (top left) corresponds to one fifth of the size of Germany. The two pictures (bottom) show parts of the martian landscape of the top picture in perspective views as if seen from a low-flying aircraft. One sees a landscape which was in the past formed by flowing water which removed millions of cubic kilometers of rock and formed the structures seen now such as mountain ranges, valleys, and mesas.
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The format of the picture, which is unique in its resolution, size, color, and 3D-visualization properties, is too large to achieve full (12 m per pixel) -resolution display on one printed page. An impression of the details that can be discriminated in the data is given by the two perspective visualizations (bottom).
Das Kameraexperiment HRSC auf der Mission Mars Express der
Europäischen Weltraumorganisation ESA wird vom Principal Investigator Prof. Dr.
Gerhard Neukum (Freie Universität Berlin), der auch die technische Konzeption der
hochauflösenden Stereokamera entworfen hatte, geleitet. Das
Wissenschaftsteam besteht aus 40 Co-Investigatoren aus 33 Institutionen und zehn
Nationen. Die Kamera wurde am Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) unter der
Leitung des Principal Investigators (PI) G. Neukum entwickelt und in Kooperation mit
industriellen Partnern gebaut (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH und Jena
-Optronik GmbH). Sie wird vom DLR -Institut für Planetenforschung in Berlin-Adlershof
betrieben. Die systematische Prozessierung der Daten erfolgt am DLR. Die Darstellungen
wurden vom Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften der FU Berlin in Zusammenarbeit
mit dem DLR-Institut für Planetenforschung erstellt.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) experiment on the ESA Mars Express Mission is led by the
Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Dr. Gerhard Neukum who also designed the camera technically. The
science team of the experiment consists of 40 Co-Investigators from 33 institutions and 10 nations.
The camera was developed at the German
Aerospace Center (DLR) under
the leadership of the PI G. Neukum and built in cooperation with industrial partners (EADS
Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The experiment on Mars Express
is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, through ESA/ESOC. The systematic
processing of the HRSC image data is carried out at DLR. The scenes shown here were created
by the PI-group at the Institute for Geological Sciences of the Freie Universitaet Berlin in
cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin.
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