[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - September 14, 2011

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
September 14, 2011

o Banded Features	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023144_1850

  What are the terraces/bands? Expressions of layered rock? Shorelines?

o Dunes in Western Arabia Terra	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023145_1935

  Dunes are particularly suited to comprehensive planetary studies 
  because they are abundant over a wide range of elevations and terrain types.

o Colorful Rocks in Terra Sabaea	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023274_1545

  This region of the ancient Southern highlands has been shaped by tectonics: 
  faulting and folding of bedrock units.

o A Channel Cut into an Impact Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_023825_1855

  What is preserved here is one step in the process that has erased many other 
  craters in Elysium Planitia as lava filled craters and other topographic lows. 
	
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.