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BALL AEROSPACE HIRISE CAMERA RETURNS STUNNING MARS IMAGES.

A Ball Aerospace-built camera is returning the highest- resolution images of planet Mars from the largest telescopic instrument ever sent beyond Earth's orbit. Positioned roughly 190 miles (300 kilometers) above the Red Planet, the High- Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera flying aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) relayed its first low-altitude images on Friday, Sept. 29.

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. HiRISE camera began its journey to Mars in August, 2005. The first images from HiRISE were returned in March of this year, when Hi

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