Who knew a camera built for the study of dusty Martian dunes would, one day, picture a cosmic bullet flying by at 130,000 ...
If all goes as planned Friday, the University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) will begin doing for Mars a little of what Google Earth has done for the home planet.
A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. To test the camera and its readings, the NASA mission detoured to Mars, relying on the ...