Date:01/10/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/01/stories/2006100113490100.htm

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Zooming in on Mars

CLOSE-UP SHOTS: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, equipped with the highest-resolution camera ever to be sent into space, has begun sending highly detailed images of a giant canyon on the Red Planet's surface, taken from low altitude. Here, one of the pictures downloaded from the powerful camera, dubbed "HiRISE" — short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment — is shown at the University of Arizona in Tucson on Friday. — Photo: AP/Arizona Daily Star, Kelly Presnell