[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - March 28, 2012

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:49:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201203282249.q2SMnSQ4005543_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
March 28, 2012

o Cratered Dune Forms
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025389_1690

  This is a wonderful case of aeolian sandstone that has
  preserved its original sand dune bedform shape.

o Lava Lamp Terrain on the Floor of Hellas Basin
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025780_1415

  Some of the weirdest and least-understood landscapes on Mars
  are on the floor of the deep Hellas impact basin.

o Summer is on Its Way
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025916_2555

  A few bright ice deposits remain sequestered in "cold traps"
  shadowed from the sun on the poleward-facing side of the dunes.

o A Wild Assortment of Jumbled Rocks
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026412_2035

  This image covers a region of Mars near Nili Fossae that contains
  some of the best exposures of ancient bedrock on Mars.

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 28 Mar 2012 06:49:28 PM PDT