[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - January 18, 2012

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:08:58 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201201182308.q0IN8woG014780_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
January 18, 2012

o Many Fantastically Colorful Gullies in a Fresh Impact Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024927_1445

  This is an especially pristine crater so the slopes may be
  particularly steep and unstable.

o Gullies in Bamberg Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024951_2200

  These gullies are of particular interest since there appears
  to be very little material accumulated on the floor here,
  unlike other craters with gullies.

o Tongue-Shaped Flow Below a Scarp in Phlegra Montes
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024958_2150

  The source of the material and how it was deposited here
  remains unclear: debris flow, landslides, or a flow of
  ice-rich material?

o The Floor of Beer Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025136_1650

  This crater was named after German astronomer Wilhelm Beer.
  It is an ancient crater more than 100 kilometers across,
  located south 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 18 Jan 2012 06:08:58 PM PST