[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - August 17, 2011

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
August 17, 2011

o Pitted Materials in Bakhuysen Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020309_1570

  Bakhuysen Crater, located in Noachis Terra, is thought to be the 
  largest crater that possesses (and has preserved) these pitted materials.

o Hematite in Capri Chasma	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020309_1570

  The TES instrument has detected gray hematite in this area of Capri 
  Chasma, one of several large depressions that make up the Valles Marineris 
  canyon system.

o Caves and Craters	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020309_1570

  Earlier this year, the CTX camera team saw a crater containing a dark spot 
  on the dusty slopes of the Pavonis Mons volcano. We took a closer look at 
  this feature with HiRISE and found this unusual geologic feature.
	
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.