[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - April 25, 2012

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 25, 2012

o How Did Valles Marineris Form?	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025415_1675

  The opening of Valles Marineris did involve crustal spreading and 
  faulting, but may have had a more complex history.

o Folded Layers in Melas Chasma, Central Valles Marineris	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026312_1700
 
  How did this folding occur? On Earth, rocks are commonly folded 
  when deeply buried and subject to high heat and pressure, which can 
  make any rock flow.

o Sedimentary Layers in West Candor Chasma	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026378_1730

  West Candor Chasma in central Valles Marineris contains some of the 
  thickest of the fine-grained layered deposits on Mars.

o Terrain Near the MSL Landing Site	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026568_1750

  This image is of a region slightly to the southwest of where the MSL 
  rover, called Curiosity, will land in August 2012.

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.