NASA camera begins shooting Martian surface

   Washington DC
12:00 4 Apr 2006 
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken its first pictures using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera. With a resolution of about 2.5m (8ft) per pixel, the image was taken on 24 March from an altitude of 2,490km (1,550 miles), about nine times the range eventually planned.

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