[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - July 10, 2013

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
July 10, 2013

o Northwest Ius Chasma Landslide and Dune Field	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026444_1720

  Landslides in Valles Marineris are truly enormous, sometimes 
  stretching from one wall to the base of another.

o Knob in the South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_032020_0955

  The South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars are a thick stack of 
  layers of ice and dust, deposited over millions of years.

o Mawrth Vallis Geodiversity	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_032125_2025

  This ancient valley once hosted flowing water, and its erosive 
  power cut down into the underlying layers of rock to expose a host 
  of diverse geologic landforms visible today.

o Sediments in Ladon Basin	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_032297_1595

  This image shows light-toned layered deposits at the contact between 
  the Ladon Valles channel and Ladon Basin. 

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.