[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - April 13, 2011

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 13, 2011

o Hydrated Minerals North of Hellas Basin
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021705_1510

  This HiRISE image has considerable diversity in color suggesting a 
  range of surface compositions.

o More Emmentaler	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021725_0930

  This terrain is called jokingly, "Swiss Cheese" because the structure 
  looks a little like Emmentaler cheese -- a cheese from near the Emme 
  Valley in the Swiss canton of Berne.

o Opportunity's Goal: Northwest Endeavour Crater Rim
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021892_1775

  CRISM spectral information indicates a number of different hydrated 
  sulfates in the whitish material beneath the sand and phyllosilicates, 
  or water bearing clay minerals, in the reddish rim.

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.