[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: April 22, 2015

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 22, 2015

o Slope Monitoring in Aram Chaos	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039655_1835
 
  Images such as this one allow us to test whether these streaks 
  grow seasonally and recur annually.

o Embayment in Tectonized Fluvial Terrain	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039658_1425

  This observation will help scientists unravel the timing for the 
  emplacement of the younger material and the numerous tectonic faults here.

o Sinuous Ridge on the Orson Welles Bajada	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039867_1805

  The sinuosity of the ridges tells us something about the speed of the 
  water flow: fast moving flows tend to be straighter than slow-moving.

o Layering in Spallanzani Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_040258_1215

  Seeing layering is always exciting to geologists because it implies that 
  the region has experienced multiple climatic conditions or geologic 
  processes through time.

o Latest View of Curiosity Rover in Gale Crater	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_040770_1755

  We periodically image the Curiosity rover and its surroundings, monitoring 
  for changes such as from active dunes. 

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.