[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: July 30, 2014

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
July 30, 2014

o Water-Bearing Rocks in Noctis Labyrinthus	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_036598_1735
 
  Many of the depressions in Noctis Labyrinthus contain 
  water-bearing minerals, suggesting that water was 
  available and persistent in this region in the ancient past.

o Preserving Ice from a Vanished Terrain	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_036598_1735
  
  This image shows a pedestal crater, so-named because the 
  level of the surface adjacent to the crater is elevated 
  relative to the surface of the surrounding terrain.

o Frosty Gullies	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037137_1360
 
  HiRISE monitoring has shown that gully formation on Mars 
  occurs in winter and early spring in times and places 
  with frost on the ground.

o Layers and Sand on the Floor of Schiaparelli Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_037161_1785

  One interpretation of this region is that actively-moving 
  sand kicks off the loose dust so we can see the hardened dust. 

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.