No matter how high the resolution of MRO or any other spacecraft, there will be some people still dragging out those overprocessed Viking photos to prove their "anomaly theories".

I'll try to find the imager specs for the main MRO instrument. Very high resolution is of limited value is the field of view is too small. It's like trying to watch a football game through a soda straw - you're going to miss a lot of things outside your field of view. I'm encouraged that the EIRP of the transmission system is going to be boosted to high levels. That'll allow a good signal-to-noise ratio, which is key to providing a high data rate.

It's a pity the Mars Internet won't be operational then. That idea would allow for a host of satellites and rovers to enjoy high data rate transmissions (and navigation) without having to have big antennas and powerful transmitters on each one. By multiplexing several signals into a single link from the commsat, it could lower the load on the DSN, too.