[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - November 9, 2011

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
November 9, 2011

o Wrinkle Ridges in Eastern Meridiani Planum	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020705_1845

  This wrinkle ridge crosses through a mound of layered material 
  that's been exposed by erosion.

o Light-Toned Layered Rocks in Arabia and East Xanthe Regions	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_020705_1845

  One possibility is that the bright terrain used to be covered with 
  the darker material which has been stripped off and removed.

o Gullies and Lobate Material in a Crater in the Nereidum Montes	
  
  This image includes a crater that has been heavily influenced by 
  later geologic processes.

o Lava Coating, Flood-Carved Kasei Valles	

  The lava in Kasei Valles only coats the lowermost part of the huge 
  valleys and comes from a source between the huge Tharsis volcanoes.

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.