[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - February 8, 2012

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
February 8, 2012

o Dunes and Ripples in Valles Marineris	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025297_1730

  Two types of wind-blown sedimentary deposits are pictured 
  in this scene of the floor of Ius Chasma in the Valles Marineris.

o Looking for an Impact Crater on a Dune	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025481_1385

  As of 2011, no craters have been found on Martian dunes,
  supporting the hypothesis that the dune fields are very young 
  features.

o Phoenix Lander Almost 2 Mars Years after Landing	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025786_2485

  This is one of a series of images to monitor frost patterns 
  at the Phoenix landing site.

o Spirit Lander and Bonneville Crater in Color
  This is the first time that HiRISE has imaged the Spirit rover 
  in color, on the west side of Bonneville Crater.

  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025815_1655   

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.