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HiWish program

HiWish is a program created by NASA to request a location for the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to photograph. It was started in January 2010. In the first months of the program, 3000 people signed up to use HiWish. The first images were released in April 2010. Over 12000 suggestions were made by the public; suggestions were made for targets in each of the 30 quadrangles of Mars. HiRISE has taken 4,224 images as of March 2016.

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HiWish is a program created by NASA to request a location for the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to photograph.123 It was started in January 2010. In the first months of the program, 3000 people signed up to use HiWish.45 The first images were released in April 2010.6 Over 12000 suggestions were made by the public; suggestions were made for targets in each of the 30 quadrangles of Mars. HiRISE has taken 4,224 images as of March 2016.7

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Public Invited To Pick Pixels On Mars". Mars Daily. January 22, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  2. "Take control of a Mars orbiter". 28 August 2018.
  3. "HiWishing for 3D Mars images, part II".
  4. Interview with Alfred McEwen on Planetary Radio, 3/15/2010
  5. "Your Personal Photoshoot on Mars?". www.planetary.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. "NASA releases first eight "HiWish" selections of people's choice Mars images". TopNews. April 2, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  7. McEwen, A. et al. 2016. THE FIRST DECADE OF HIRISE AT MARS. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016) 1372.pdf
Further reading

Further reading

  • Lorenz, R. 2014. The Dune Whisperers. The Planetary Report: 34, 1, 8-14
  • Lorenz, R., J. Zimbelman. 2014. Dune Worlds: How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes. Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences.
  • Grotzinger, J. and R. Milliken (eds.). 2012. Sedimentary Geology of Mars. SEPM.
External links
  • McEwen, A., et al. 2024. The high-resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) in the MRO extended science phases (2009–2023). Icarus. Available online 16 September 2023, 115795. In Press.