The Experiments HRSC and WAOSS on the Mars 94 and 96 Missions.

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and the Wide Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner (WAOSS) of the Argus remote sensing complex of the Mars 94 and96 missions wil image the surface of Mars and atmospheric phenomena in stereo and color and will carry out photometric measurements simultaneously. The highest resolution will be 10 m per pixel for the HRSC and 88 m for the WAOSS. For the first time in planetary exploration, data compression up to a factor of 20 and a solid-state mass memory of 1 Gbit will be used in order to manage to return a data volume on the order of several 10^12 bits