[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - March 28, 2012

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
March 28, 2012

o Cratered Dune Forms	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025389_1690

  This is a wonderful case of aeolian sandstone that has 
  preserved its original sand dune bedform shape.

o Lava Lamp Terrain on the Floor of Hellas Basin	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025780_1415

  Some of the weirdest and least-understood landscapes on Mars 
  are on the floor of the deep Hellas impact basin.

o Summer is on Its Way	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025916_2555

  A few bright ice deposits remain sequestered in "cold traps" 
  shadowed from the sun on the poleward-facing side of the dunes.

o A Wild Assortment of Jumbled Rocks	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026412_2035

  This image covers a region of Mars near Nili Fossae that contains 
  some of the best exposures of ancient bedrock on Mars. 

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.