[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - August 17, 2011 (Corrected)
Ron Baalke
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Sun Aug 21 02:22:10 EDT 2011
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_023331_1670
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_023531_1840
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.
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