[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - October 17, 2012

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:04:05 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201210172204.q9HM45GR028969_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
October 17, 2012

o What Is It?
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027912_1770

  This image reveals some very curious topography: an elevated
  mesa with lobate margins and a patterned surface, connected to
  a shallow depression.

o Curiosity Tracks and Descent Stage Debris
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_028678_1755

  This is another HiRISE image acquired to provide more coverage
  of the landing region in the narrow color swath.

o Angular Blocks
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_028812_1485

  This image covers an impact crater on the northeast rim of Hellas
  basin, with excellent exposures of bedrock layers.

o Lobate Flow Features East of Hellas Region
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029035_1455

  These features are considered to be a depositional sink for water
  ice-rich deposits falling from the atmosphere during periods of
  high obliquity in the past several million years.

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 17 Oct 2012 06:04:05 PM PDT