[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - April 11, 2012

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 11, 2012

o Terraces or Strata on a Crater Slope	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025370_1290

  Structural features cut through the layered material and strata 
  at this location. Could these features be faults or dikes?

o A Volcanic Pit Chain and Dust Avalanches 	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026249_2025

  The upper wall of the pit shows at least four distinct layers, each 
  representing a sequence of one or more lava flows.

o Eroded Terrain Near Volcanic Fissures	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026303_1945

  This observation was taken to investigate the topography near the 
  source of fluids from the Cerberus Fossae fractures in the Elysium 
  Planitia region of Mars.

o Layered Sediments in Danielson Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026349_1885

  These layered sediments are of great interest because they are very 
  regular in thicknesses.

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.