It works! it works!!

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

NASA scientists are reporting that the New Mars Orbiter Images are 'Fantastic'. Excellent! The orbiter can discern objects on Mars as small as three pixels across.

NASA’s new red planet probe, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), has relayed spectacular test images using its super-powerful camera leaving mission scientists and engineers more than pleased with the initial imagery.

The views from MRO's High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera, which has called the most powerful camera ever sent to red planet, reached Earth early Friday.

“The quality of the images is fantastic!” HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen, of the University of Arizona, told SPACE.com. “This demonstrates that both the HiRISE camera and the spacecraft pointing performed superbly.”

Thank god republicans aren't in charge of the mission.