[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: January 7, 2015

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
January 7, 2015

o A Polar Smile	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039115_0945

  If you smile at Mars, sometimes it smiles back.

o Strange Flow: Landslide, Impact Melt or Lava?	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039117_1745

  Scientists are trying to determine if these deposits 
  represent materials deposited by a massive landslide, 
  an impact crater or a nearby volcanic event.

o A Recent Impact in Elysium Planitia	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039148_1980

  This image shows a new impact crater in Elysium Planitia 
  that was first discovered by the Mars Context Camera.

o The Eastern Portion of Cerberus Fossae	
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039187_1915

  Visible in this observation is a section of Cerberus Fossae 
  which are comprised of a series of rifts present located in 
  Elysium Planitia, just north the Martian equator.

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.