[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: August 28, 2013

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:05:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201308291505.r7TF5ltY000452_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
August 28, 2013

o Basin in the West Candor Chasma Layered Deposits
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_017741_1745
 
  Wind is a powerful, erosive force, transporting fine-grain sediments
  that can shape topography and expose darker material underneath the
  surface.

o Oxbows and Cutoffs in Idaeus Fossae
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029054_2165

  As rivers age they can meander and occasionally these meanders get so
  pronounced that the river cuts off these curving loops at their narrow
  end leaving them as isolated as oxbow lakes.

o Breaching a Crater Rim in Tartarus Montes
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_029072_2040

  In this observation, we can see a small notch in a crater rim with a
  well-formed channel, where lava flowed. Did the crater fill to the level
  of the lava outside?

o Migrating and Static Sand Ripples on Mars
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_032616_1275

  Having operated at Mars for more than seven years, MRO and the HiRISE
  camera continue to make new discoveries. One of these is that many sand
  dunes and ripples are moving, some at rates of several meters per year.

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 Thu 29 Aug 2013 11:05:47 AM PDT


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