[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images - June 1, 2016

Ron Baalke baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Sat Jun 18 23:44:55 EDT 2016



MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
June 1, 2016

o An Inverted Crater
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_043651_1590

  There is a circular feature in this observation that appears to 
  stand above the surrounding terrain. How did it form?

o Beautiful Blocks of Bedrock
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_044902_1575

  This image targets a 3-kilometer diameter crater that occurs 
  within the ejecta blanket of the much older Bakhuysen Crater.

o The Plains are Not Plain
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045300_1630

  This image covers some of the plains south of Capri Chasma in 
  eastern Valles Marineris.

o Drag Folds in the North Polar Layered Deposits
  http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_045308_2620
	
  This image shows what looks like drag folds, where rock layers 
  bend before they break in a fault. 

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.



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