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

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
January 11, 2012

o Banded Wall Outcrop in Ius Chasma	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024361_1735

  This was thought to be an important area for the 
  development of some post-Viking views of Mars.

o Aram Chaos	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024398_1835

  This would be an interesting area to explore and to send 
  a rover, because we think that water might have existed 
  in the underground as ice.

o Search for Beagle 2 Lander	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024618_1920

  This is the twelfth image from HiRISE in the part of 
  Isidis basin where the British Beagle 2 spacecraft was 
  supposed to land around Christmas time of 2003.

o Defrosting Barchan Dunes	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025118_2570

  Barchan dunes form by winds blowing mainly in one 
  direction and thus are good indicators of the dominant 
  wind direction when the dunes formed. 

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.