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we're getting brand-new images from

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NASA's newest Mars spacecraft the Mars

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Reconnaissance Orbiter has made its

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first observations from low orbit one of

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its three cameras the high-resolution

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imaging science experiment or high-rise

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is providing unprecedented views of the

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red planet each and every one of these

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images we are seeing features on Mars

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we've never seen before hi rice can

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resolve features as small as a few feet

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across here's the context image was a

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lot more detail in this context image

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that you can see here the high-res image

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comes a little area there that you see

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in yellow will zoom in on that and then

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we'll show the overlay of a color

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coverage which is just a narrow strip

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down the middle of the image but we'll

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zoom in yet again and now we're

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approaching a full resolution where

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we're seeing features as small as a few

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feet across this is a beautiful area

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this is enhanced false color this is not

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where it really looked to us there is in

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this area and overlying layer that has

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the orange and blue tint thick layer but

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it's being stripped away by the wind

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this is an active environment on Mars

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beneath this we see this light toned

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material it's layered as we see here

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layers that fill the crater this is the

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clay rich material that's of such

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interest because it means the

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environment here was wet we see a

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variety of small scale features we see

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small channels as in water we see that

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bright material is broken up into little

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plates

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so we are seeing revealed here a very

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ancient world we know that this is very

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ancient because the over I overlying

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layer even is old and heavily cratered

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this was a very different world on Mars

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this was a soaking-wet world where we

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reformed clays and small-scale

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morphologies that we don't normally see

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on Mars so there is a history here of

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climate change on Mars in the relatively

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recent past that we're going to have a

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lot of fun trying to decipher with the

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multiple instruments on Emeril's this is

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only the beginning in early November the

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will begin