HiWish program

HiWish is a program created by NASA so that anyone can suggest a place for the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to photograph.[1][2][3] It was started in January 2010. In the first few months of the program 3000 people signed up to use HiRISE.[4][5] The first images were released in April 2010.[6] Over 12,000 suggestions were made by the public; suggestions were made for targets in each of the 30 quadrangles of Mars. Selected images released were used for three talks at the 16th Annual International Mars Society Convention. Below are some of the over 4,224 images that have been released from the HiWish program as of March 2016.[7]

  1. ^ "Public Invited To Pick Pixels On Mars". Mars Daily. January 22, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  2. ^ "Take control of a Mars orbiter". 28 August 2018.
  3. ^ "HiWishing for 3D Mars images, part II".
  4. ^ Interview with Alfred McEwen on Planetary Radio, 3/15/2010
  5. ^ "Your Personal Photoshoot on Mars?". www.planetary.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. ^ "NASA releases first eight "HiWish" selections of people's choice Mars images". TopNews. April 2, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  7. ^ McEwen, A. et al. 2016. THE FIRST DECADE OF HIRISE AT MARS. 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016) 1372.pdf