{"id":503766,"date":"2010-04-01T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2254937"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T23:30:00","slug":"peoples-choice-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503766","title":{"rendered":"People’s choice from Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Click for slideshow:<\/A><\/STRONG> Dust dunes make rippling patterns on the floor of Samara
Valles, one of the longest ancient valley systems on Mars. Click on the picture to
see a slideshow of “HiWish” imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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The scientists who control the high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been taking requests, and now they’ve started to deliver Red Planet pictures<\/A> to follow up on hundreds of suggestions from the public.<\/P>
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“Some people get into model railroading or Civil War re-enactments. My thing is exploring Mars,” James Secosky, a retired teacher in Manchester, N.Y., said in a NASA advisory<\/A>. Secosky’s suggestion was among about 1,000 sent in to the “HiWish” imaging program set up in January by the team behind the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE.<\/P>
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The scientists evaluated those suggestions, and this week they released the first eight HiWish selections<\/A>. The new views take an up-close look at sights such as a boulder-strewn plain, layered ice deposits, the slopes of a volcano and dusty highlands that may hide signs of volcanic activity.<\/P>
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the people’s choice program was “a prime example of what we call participatory exploration.”<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA \/ JPL \/ Univ. of Ariz. Click for slideshow: Dust dunes make rippling patterns on the floor of Samara Valles, one of the longest ancient valley systems on Mars. Click on the picture to see a slideshow of “HiWish” imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The scientists who control the high-resolution camera on NASA’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}