[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - September 21, 2011

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201109211945.p8LJjQPb003951_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
September 21, 2011

o Small Mounds in Chryse Planitia
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023304_1995

  The area in this observation is characterized by a group of
  cones, shield-like features, and round mounds.

o Avire Crater Seasonal Monitoring
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023322_1390

  The origin of gullies is controversial, but many, and probably
  those here, seem to require carbon dioxide or water frost.

o Jumbled Terrain in Ius Chasma
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023398_1725

  The bright units have a mineral called sulfate that on Earth
  typically forms in the presence of water as an evaporite.

o Opportunity at Endeavour Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024015_1775

  Opportunity travelled nearly three years to reach this rim because
  it contains rocks even more ancient than the rocks of Meridiani Planum.
        
        
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 Wed 21 Sep 2011 03:45:26 PM PDT