[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: April 16, 2014

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 16, 2014

o A Surprise Landslump in Melas Chasma
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_035028_1685

  In one of our most recent images of this site, there was 
  a surprise a new dark streak just down slope from recurring 
  slope lineae.

o Equatorial Gullies on Mars	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_035945_1755

  Although gullies are most common in the middle latitudes of 
  Mars, they are also found in equatorial regions.

o A Big Block of Red Bedrock	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_035998_1555

  These blocks could be ejecta from the ancient Hellas impact or 
  other large impacts from billions of years ago.

o Curiosity Ready to Drill for Gold at the Kimberley	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/msl-kimberley.php

  This new image of the Curiosity (MSL) shows the rover approaching 
  one of many geologically young scarps that are of interest to scientists.


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.