[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - January 24, 2013

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
January 24, 2013

o Spring Fans	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029577_0925

  At high latitudes every winter carbon dioxide condenses from Mars' 
  atmosphere onto the surface forming a seasonal polar cap.

o Beautiful Butterfly Crater (HiWish Granted Again)	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029854_1890

  This observation fulfills a HiWish request from a member of the public.

o Banded Bedrock in Terra Sabaea	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030184_1585

  The ridges or bright or dark lines that cut across the layers mark faults, 
  places where the crust fractured and accommodated motions.

o Stone Circles	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030222_1220

  This image covers a region southeast of the giant Hellas impact basin, which 
  has distinctive properties in THEMIS temperature images. 

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.