[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - January 30, 2013

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
January 30, 2013

o Textured Crater Floor in the Arabia Region	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_024870_2080

  Surrounding the uplifted bedrock in the center of this large crater 
  is mottled terrain. What possibly caused this?

o East Coprates Chasma Dune Fields and Wall Rock	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025164_1655

  One of the suggested goals for this observation was to investigate 
  the relation of dune material with wall rock as a suspected sand source.

o A Crater Exposing Diverse Compositions	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030079_1550

  The blue-green (infrared-shifted) colors indicate minerals like olivine 
  and pyroxene, common in lava or subsurface intrusions of magma.

o MSL Curiosity on Sol 157 in Color	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_030313_1755

  This HiRISE observation was performed in conjunction with a CRISM 
  observation so that they could get good spectral data on the scour zone 
  created by the MSL descent rockets.

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.