Landing sites from Orbiter

This article brings to light the 26 terabytles of information that has been surpassed in collecting data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiemtna dn the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer have been taking in most of the data. The 143 images that have been release share features as small as a desk on the surface of Mars. This is important so possible landing spots can be found for furture mission in 2009.

The spectrometer has found clay minerals that are hydrated that may lead to some information about life on Mars.

There exsist about 30 potential landing spots for the mission in 2009. Out of those places they need to decide which would be the the best to determine if there was any signs of life. Although the pictures were not taken in color the is computer software that has color fliters to help make the photographs in color.