[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - April 25, 2012

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201204251953.q3PJr60B009780_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 25, 2012

o How Did Valles Marineris Form?
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025415_1675

  The opening of Valles Marineris did involve crustal spreading and
  faulting, but may have had a more complex history.

o Folded Layers in Melas Chasma, Central Valles Marineris
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026312_1700
 
  How did this folding occur? On Earth, rocks are commonly folded
  when deeply buried and subject to high heat and pressure, which can
  make any rock flow.

o Sedimentary Layers in West Candor Chasma
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026378_1730

  West Candor Chasma in central Valles Marineris contains some of the
  thickest of the fine-grained layered deposits on Mars.

o Terrain Near the MSL Landing Site
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026568_1750

  This image is of a region slightly to the southwest of where the MSL
  rover, called Curiosity, will land in August 2012.

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 25 Apr 2012 03:53:06 PM PDT