[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - October 17, 2012

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
October 17, 2012

o What Is It?	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027912_1770

  This image reveals some very curious topography: an elevated 
  mesa with lobate margins and a patterned surface, connected to 
  a shallow depression.

o Curiosity Tracks and Descent Stage Debris	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_028678_1755

  This is another HiRISE image acquired to provide more coverage 
  of the landing region in the narrow color swath.

o Angular Blocks	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_028812_1485

  This image covers an impact crater on the northeast rim of Hellas 
  basin, with excellent exposures of bedrock layers.

o Lobate Flow Features East of Hellas Region	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029035_1455

  These features are considered to be a depositional sink for water 
  ice-rich deposits falling from the atmosphere during periods of 
  high obliquity in the past several million years. 

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.