Incredible New Images Of Mars Are So High-Res, You Can See Beagle 2 On The Surface

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This image shows the path of Spirit driving up Husband Hill summit in spring/summer of 2006. NASA/UCL/University of Leicester

Long gone are the days of seeing mysterious faces in blurry images from the surface of Mars. Satellite images of the Red Planet are now getting the high-resolution treatment.

Thanks to a new technique, called Super-Resolution Restoration (SRR), researchers from University College London were able to go beyond the 25-centimeter (10-inch) resolution limit of current cameras. By stacking and matching pictures of the same area taken from different angles, SRR-treated images have a resolution of up to 5 centimeters (2 inches).