Students Chose HiRISE Camera Targets on Mars

In the past six months, more than 1,500 students from schools in Hungary, Nepal, Curacao, India, Arizona, and New Jersey submitted possible targets for the High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera (known as the HiRISE Camera) to look for places on Mars that may have once been covered in water. The HiRISE camera is orbiting on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"The HiRISE camera is the most powerful camera to orbit any planet other than Earth." It is also known as the "People's Camera" because the public can easily access the images and also have opportunities to suggest where on Mars are good places to point the camera.

Two weeks ago, 3rd grade students from Sunridge Elementary School in Phoenix, AZ saw their chosen target on Mars released to the world in a new image from the HiRISE camera. The place that they suggested was "a valley system called Iberus Vallis, located on the southeast flank of the volcano, Elysium Mons, in the northern lowland of Mars."

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