HiWish program

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HiWish is a program created by NASA to request a location for the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to photograph. [1] [2] [3] It was started in January 2010. In the first months of the program, 3000 people signed up to use HiWish. [4] [5] The first images were released in April 2010. [6] Over 12000 suggestions were made by the public; suggestions were made for targets in each of the 30 quadrangles of Mars. HiRISE has taken 4,224 images as of March 2016. [7] [ outdated statistic ]

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  1. ↑ "Public Invited To Pick Pixels On Mars". Mars Daily. January 22, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Take control of a Mars orbiter". 28 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "HiWishing for 3D Mars images, part II".
  4. ↑ Interview with Alfred McEwen on Planetary Radio, 3/15/2010
  5. ↑ "Your Personal Photoshoot on Mars?". www.planetary.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "NASA releases first eight "HiWish" selections of people's choice Mars images". TopNews. April 2, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  7. ↑ McEwen, A. et al. 2016. THE FIRST DECADE OF HIRISE AT MARS. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016) 1372.pdf

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