[meteorite-list] Pits, Flows, Other Scenes in New Set of Mars Images (MRO)

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-403  

Pits, Flows, Other Scenes in New Set of Mars Images
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
December 01, 2010

Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High
Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortment of Martian
environments.

Strewn boulders and rippled sand lie on the floors of two shadowy,
steep-walled pits. Mounds in another region appear to be mud volcanoes,
which may have brought fine-grained material to the surface from deep
underground. In the Tharsis volcanic region, the intersection of a lava
flow with a trough caused by ground collapse allows seeing whether the
flow happened before or after the collapse.

These and thousands of other images from HiRISE observations between
Oct. 1 and Nov. 1, 2010, are now available on NASA's Planetary Data
System (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/) and the camera team's website
(http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu).

The camera is one of six instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter, which reached Mars in 2006.  It has made more than 17,000
observations. Each observation covers an area of several square miles on
Mars and reveals details as small as desks.

For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, see
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/.

Guy Webster (818) 354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster at jpl.nasa.gov

2010-403