[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: April 4, 2012

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 4, 2012

o Sedimentary Deposits on the Floor of Ritchey Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025797_1515

  Ritchey Crater exposes some of the most colorful rock outcrops on Mars 
  in its central peak.

o Layers in a Crater Wall	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026061_1435

  The sun is beautifully illuminating a series of layers exposed in the 
  crater wall which have a variety of different colors.

o A Monster Dust Devil Stalks the Martian Landscape	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026394_2160

  A dust devil the size of a terrestrial tornado towers above the Martian 
  surface in this late springtime afternoon image of Amazonis Planitia.

o Of Elephants and Floods of Lava	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026461_2080

  This image covers the margin of a lava flow in Elysium Planitia, the 
  youngest flood-lava province on Mars, and highlights terrain that 
  resembles an elephant.

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.