PHOTOS: Closeups of Mars from HiRise

The images below are tight croppings/edits from photographs taken by the HiRise camera (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) mounted to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). To the right is an artists concept of it.

I was playing around in Microsofts Worldwide Telescope recently and started zooming in on these images and couldn't believe the beauty and detail. These are just a few that I made into wallpapers for home use.

Doesn't even really look like the surface of a planet. Looks to me more like microscopic images taken here on good ol' mama earth.

Click on these to see the detail. You won't believe the textures.

All images property of NASA