[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - April 3, 2013

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 3, 2013

o Dark Rays and Light-Tones
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_012560_1660

  This image shows a relatively youthful crater with dark rayed 
  ejecta and a light-toned zone that extends beyond that ejecta.

o Sinuous Ridge in Gale Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030814_1750

  This scene covers a region of the floor of Gale Crater to the 
  east of where Curiosity landed, providing needed regional geologic 
  context.

o Erosion of Steep Scarp of the South Polar Layered Deposits	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_031078_1080

  This image shows spectacular erosion of a steep scarp in the icy 
  layered deposits on the South Pole of Mars.

o Colorful Bedrock on the Floor of an Impact Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_031099_1355

  There are layers of rock with different colors (from different minerals) 
  exposed in places where the dark reddish wind-blown drifts have been removed.

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.