[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - September 14, 2011

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:08:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201109151508.p8FF8hjT024235_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
September 14, 2011

o Banded Features
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023144_1850

  What are the terraces/bands? Expressions of layered rock? Shorelines?

o Dunes in Western Arabia Terra
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023145_1935

  Dunes are particularly suited to comprehensive planetary studies
  because they are abundant over a wide range of elevations and terrain types.

o Colorful Rocks in Terra Sabaea
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023274_1545

  This region of the ancient Southern highlands has been shaped by tectonics:
  faulting and folding of bedrock units.

o A Channel Cut into an Impact Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023825_1855

  What is preserved here is one step in the process that has erased many other
  craters in Elysium Planitia as lava filled craters and other topographic lows.
        
All of the HiRISE images are archived here:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/

Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is
online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is
managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division
of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA
Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed
Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor
and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the
University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies
Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument.
Received on Thu 15 Sep 2011 11:08:43 AM PDT