On August 12, 2005, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was launched into space. Ever since that time, the orbiter has been providing us with amazing images of the Red Planet, and it continues to do so. In fact, NASA has released a new batch of images from the MRO in celebration of its 15th anniversary, and they are downloadable for free!
The new batch of images can be found by clicking on this page of NASA’s website. That’ll bring up what looks like a blog post with images and then descriptions of them. To see any of the images up-close, or to download them, click on the image itself. You’ll then have the option of downloading it as a JPG or TIF, or as wallpaper.
But as you view or download some of the photos, you might notice that some of them are predominantly blue in color, instead of red.
In these images, “false color” was added to highlight features like the tops of dunes and ripples to show how different aspects of the Mars landscape change over time (similar to what happens on Earth, but without the impact of human residents).
Learn more details about the MRO as well as how it takes these photos over at LifeHacker.
(Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
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