[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: April 4, 2012

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201204042316.q34NGkwF016377_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
April 4, 2012

o Sedimentary Deposits on the Floor of Ritchey Crater
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025797_1515

  Ritchey Crater exposes some of the most colorful rock outcrops on Mars
  in its central peak.

o Layers in a Crater Wall
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026061_1435

  The sun is beautifully illuminating a series of layers exposed in the
  crater wall which have a variety of different colors.

o A Monster Dust Devil Stalks the Martian Landscape
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026394_2160

  A dust devil the size of a terrestrial tornado towers above the Martian
  surface in this late springtime afternoon image of Amazonis Planitia.

o Of Elephants and Floods of Lava
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_026461_2080

  This image covers the margin of a lava flow in Elysium Planitia, the
  youngest flood-lava province on Mars, and highlights terrain that
  resembles an elephant.

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.
Received on Wed 04 Apr 2012 07:16:45 PM PDT