[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - February 6, 2013

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:57:25 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201302062057.r16KvPUB020620_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
February 6, 2013

o Layers in a Crater in Nilosyrtis
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025001_2255

  These layers formed long after the impact event and are
  likely deposits of dust and ice.

o Frost Avalanches on Steep Scarps
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025010_2650

  While HiRISE has captured other frost avalanches before,
  they never cease to amaze since it demonstrates that there
  are indeed active processes on the Red Planet.

o Layering in Central Candor Chasma
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025112_1750

  A Context Camera (CTX) image of this area shows faulted layered
  deposits near the contact between the layered deposits and wall rock.

o Conical Hill on South Polar Layered Deposits
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030196_0970

  The hill appears layered and may be an erosional remnant, in which
  most of the region been eroded to a depth of at least the height of
  this hill.

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 06 Feb 2013 03:57:25 PM PST