[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - January 11, 2012

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:08:14 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201201112208.q0BM8EVa002831_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
January 11, 2012

o Banded Wall Outcrop in Ius Chasma
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024361_1735

  This was thought to be an important area for the
  development of some post-Viking views of Mars.

o Aram Chaos
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024398_1835

  This would be an interesting area to explore and to send
  a rover, because we think that water might have existed
  in the underground as ice.

o Search for Beagle 2 Lander
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024618_1920

  This is the twelfth image from HiRISE in the part of
  Isidis basin where the British Beagle 2 spacecraft was
  supposed to land around Christmas time of 2003.

o Defrosting Barchan Dunes
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025118_2570

  Barchan dunes form by winds blowing mainly in one
  direction and thus are good indicators of the dominant
  wind direction when the dunes formed.

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 11 Jan 2012 05:08:14 PM PST