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

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
July 16, 2014

o Ridges in Eridania Basin
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_036654_1490

  Eridania Basin has mounting geomorphic and spectral evidence that it may have 
  been the site of an ancient inland sea.

o The Icy Surface of the North Polar Cap
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_036867_2655

  At Mars' North Pole is a dome of icy layers ranging up to 2 kilometers thick, 
  roughly analogous to the Earth's ice caps in Greenland or Antarctica.

o Ancient Lake Sediments in a Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037122_2165

  Our observation shows layered deposits, some with polygonal patterns, as might 
  be expected from lake sediments.

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.