[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: July 15, 2016

[Ron Baalke]

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
July 15, 2016

o Slope Instability
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_037700_1710

  One small section of this image shows boulders that have rolled 
  down the slope of a crater wall, with the largest one approximately 
  6 meters across.

o Glorious Glacier
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045334_1350

  This image has low-sun lighting that accentuates the many transverse 
  ridges on this slope, extending from Euripus Mons.

o Einstein and Mars
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045344_1420

  In February 1917, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter: "It is a pity that 
  we do not live on Mars and just observe man's nasty antics by telescope."

o Mesas and Pits
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045390_2215

  What's up and what's down? This image covers mesas, or high-standing 
  plateaus, to the north and pits, or low-standing, depressions to the south.

o Faulting Mars
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045497_1800

  This region of Xanthe Terra has mostly been contracted due to thrust faulting.

o North Polar Gypsum Dunes in Olympia Undae
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045501_2605

  Unlike most of the sand dunes on Mars that are made of the volcanic rock basalt, 
  these are made of a type of sulfate mineral called gypsum.

o Colorful Bedrock in the Central Uplift of an Impact Crater
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045519_1730

  Large impact craters rebound from the initial shock, raising deep bedrock to 
  the surface in the central uplift of the crater.

o A Meandering Channel on Hellas
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045611_1410

  These gentle curves imply that a paleoriver carried lots of sediment along with 
  it, depositing it into Hellas about 4 billion years ago.

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.