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Comparison of potential capabilities of the NRO telescopes in Mars orbit

Comparison of potential capabilities of the NRO telescopes in Mars orbit
Comparison of potential capabilities of the NRO telescopes in Mars orbit Comparison of potential capabilities of the NRO telescopes in Mars orbit for visible camera images and for an imaging spectrometer compared to the capabilities of the currently operating Mars Reconnaissance Orbiters HiRISE camera and CRISM imaging spectrometer. While the NRO telescope would improve resolution, the size of the images would be much smaller (look at the swath widths). From Zachary J. Bailey and colleagues abstract (PDF).