Blogs are a wonderful thing. I just read a little further down and found out there is cake!!

EDIT: GRRR, the cake's not here yet

They might be posted at: http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/ . The MRO site might also be a good bet, but the HiRISE page may post the full size images. I'll ask around.

EDIT: Keep an out on that page, the MRO JPL page, and the main HiRISE page: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/hirise/ .

Hey, volcanopele, sorry to bug you but re my previous question: Do you know where the first pics will be posted on the Web? I'm not sure where to go...thanks!

[EDIT] Jumped the gun, man...thanks!!! Jeez, and this was my 400th post....oh, the ignominity of it all!
[EDIT2] Gotcha...thanks again, you da man, even if you are an Ionian caldera!!!

I bet jpl will have the pics real fast..they have in the past

BREAKING NEWS: The blog says that the first pictures are in, and "they look amazing!" Singular & plural were mixed in the entry, but from context this might be about the very first pic.

UPDATE (NEW ENTRY QUOTED VERBATIM): "We’ve been looking at the first images for the last several minutes, they are incredible. We have identified many boulders, craters, channels, and other incredible features. Everything is looking as well as we have dreamed. Stay tuned for more!"

I just had to go get lunch at the Student Union

Yep, the first image, of Ius Chasma, is down. For Mars, it looks great.

I'm guessing here that you'd prefer an IRO, VP?....

ok..so post the pictures already

From the Hirise blogsite :
"It is an amazing site at HiROC now. The team members all look like kids at Christmas time, opening that present that they’ve wanted for so very long. There are already amazing things we want to study more, amazing things that we can learn from Mars already. It’s going to be an amazing two year Primary Science Phase! We are all transfixed, studying these incredible pictures! "

We, at UMSF, when we talk about pictures, we can actualy SEE them

Patience... you will see them soon. Even Cassini images on the raw images page are delayed a few hours from when they hit the ground to when you actually see them. That first image just got done finished processing only 30 minutes ago.

Hey, cut climber some slack. After all, HiRISE is being trumpeted as the "People's Camera." And I presume climber is included.

Hey, climber. We're almost there! We now have images of the HiRISE team looking at the pictures

My only question is: What's next? Pictures of the team eating the cake?

This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Sep 29 2006, 09:05 PM

If you take a picture of yourself at your monitor and post it, then we can have pictures of UMSF members looking at pictures of HiRISE staff, looking at pictures of Mars. That's nearly as good as the real thing, isn't it?

oh..from the blog..
dam..ah well..time to go eat..bbl

OK who has the mad imaging skills to tease the data from a possible reflection in the window? It's got to be there somewheres....

And geez, I am all for "real time" display of the images online, but even in my wildest dreams never expected a live connect from my iBook to the DSN..... patience!