Tons of new Mars Data

Bamf writes "In the past few days a lot of brand new Mars data was released. The Mars Global Surveyor Camera released 11,664 new images (123,800 released to date), and the THEMIS instrument aboard Odyssey released 8,761 new infrared and visible light images (20,010 released to date). For the short attention span crowd, there's new captioned images here and here. Last month, every superhero's favorite instrument, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer, released element maps of iron, potassium, thorium and silicon, as well as a map of polar hydrogen."

Were they just lazy?

[Graelin]

I mean, all of a sudden those cameras just decide to take a lot of photos? Damn, that's lazy.

Oh wait, I get it now...

That Whirring sound you hear...

[EvilBastard]

...is the sound of all the Mars Loons loading up their copies of Photoshops to see what they can find.

I hope they Have a nice day [nasa.gov]

Re:That Whirring sound you hear...

[Descartes]

Hmmm, does anyone know where the "face" on mars is supposed to be? I'd like to see what it really is if we have such good pictures now.

I bet they just "forgot" to get an image of that area :)

Re:That Whirring sound you hear...

[Anonymous Coward]

Cydonia region. Have a look at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mgs_cydonia.h tml.

Re:That Whirring sound you hear...

[SuperGlue]

The same Loons will showcase their true expertise by downloading only the JPGs files rather than pulling down the lossless GIFs. The rest of their night will be used to hit redial over and over trying to get into the Art Bell show. Eager to reveal how they are personally responsible for the term "Idiot scientist".

SuperGlueBooger

pshaw

[BortQ]

every superhero's favorite instrument, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer

Real superheros don't need no stinkin Gamma Ray Spectrometer! They just use their eyes.

Tons?

[knowledgepeacewi]

Truly it can't be more than 1 or 2 hard drives worth....maybe 3-5 lbs.