[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: June 29, 2016

Ron Baalke baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Thu Jun 30 18:54:35 EDT 2016



MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
June 29, 2016

o Martian Morse Code
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044675_2580

  The shape and orientation of dunes can usually tell us about 
  wind direction, but in this image, the dune-forms are very complex.

o Glowing Gullies in Kaiser Crater Dunes
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_045324_1325

  The giant sand dunes in Kaiser Crater experience gully erosion of the 
  steep slip faces every year in late winter as the sun warms the slopes.

o Bedrock North of Terby Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_045335_1535
	
  These may be some of the oldest rocks exposed at the Martian surface.

o Dreaming of Graben in the Labyrinth of the Night
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_045605_1715

  Noctis Labyrinthus is a highly tectonized region immediately to the west 
  of Valles Marineris. It formed when Mars' crust stretched itself apart. 

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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