S: Is for glimpses of Space

As we journey through life in this age we are priveledged to see beyond our own backyard. Distant planets are just within a telephoto lense. This is an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The University of Arizona, Tucson, which operates HiRISE, has just released a new batch of these photos taken in the last several months. They reveal an alien landscape of craters, valleys, ridges, channels, weird surface patterns and other features in incredible detail. This image is the muffin-cup-like Victoria Crater, a site once explored by the Mars rover Opportunity. The camera is pointed 22 degrees east so we get a better view of the crater's slopes, "comparable to a view from an airplane window," the university says.
Some of the images are reminesent of flying over the Grand Canyon or the Sahara. Others are distinctly extraterrestrial in nature. The images reveal details about the surface of our neighbor in the solar system and prove we are not alone and that is a F.A.C.T.