The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a huge amount of the Martian surface images in high-resolution format. The images have been collected since 2005 and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRise camera was used to capture all these pictures.
However, the most recent chunk of pictures is particularly massive, consisting of more than a thousand images that can explain more about the red planet, give details about its impact sites, mountains, dunes, ice caps and other characteristics of the planet.
Planetary Image Research Laboratory director Alfred McEwen said that the satellite was capable of capturing plenty of images and transmitting them back quickly, due to many factors.
When the Sun and Mars get on opposite sides of the earth every 26 months, such an event enables the satellites to see the red planet in total visibility with sunlight striking the neighbouring planet from north to south pole. On such an occurrence, the satellite beams a large amount of data back to earth.
A similar incident took place this year on May 22 when earth received unhindered communications between Mars for a period of a few weeks.
All the data can be utilised by NASA for upcoming missions including the InSight lander. The images can give details about the best landing region on the red planet.
To see the spectacular images, go to HiRise.