[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - August 10, 2011

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
August 10, 2011

o Cerberus Fossae Fractures	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021464_1900

  These fractures have acted as a conduit for the release of water 
  and lava onto the surface relatively recently in Martian geologic history.

o Troughs and Wind Features of the Tharsis Region	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021527_1960

  Graben of different orientations criss-cross each other here, indicating 
  that the terrain was stretched in different directions at different times.

o A Forest of Channels on the South Polar Layered Deposits	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023164_1020

  The regularity of these features may suggest something about the thickness 
  of ground ice deep below the surface.
	
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.