[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - November 13, 2013

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
November 13, 2013

o Crater with Trough in Utopia Rupes	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033242_2315

  Does this observation show a possible proto-pedestal crater?

o Rafts of Lava with Strange Infrared Properties	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033556_1890

  Compared to the rest of the lava flow, two raised areas in this 
  observation are cold at night and warm in the day.

o Linear Ridges	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_033902_2125

  Straight and meandering thin ridges are periodically found on Mars. 
  Such ridges can form in a variety of ways.

o Sandstone Cliffs and Hematite Lag Deposits of Ophir Mensa	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_002208_1755

  These light-toned sedimentary deposits are of interest to scientists 
  because they are partially composed of minerals like hematite that 
  likely formed in the presence of liquid water. 
	
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.