[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - May 11, 2011

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
May 11, 2011

o Bedform Changes in Aureum Chaos	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021906_1765

  Aureum Chaos, located in the eastern part of Valles Marineris, is a 
  complex area with light-toned material.

o Promethei Planum	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021915_1005

  A study of this formation may reveal new knowledge about erosion, and 
  ice formation.

o Potential Mars Landing Site Near Mounds Associated with Crater Rim	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_021919_2135

  One of the justifications for this observation is to assess landing/roving 
  hazards and morphology.

o Possible Inverted Topography Landscape with Clay Minerals	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_022077_2000

  Clays are exciting because they indicate there was most likely water 
  around here long ago.

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.