MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES August 1, 2012
o Layers in Flammarion Crater http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027059_2055 A high resolution image can see minute details that will enable us to start to catalog different types of layers and to discover under what conditions they are produced. o Nested Craters http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027610_2205 We can use craters like this to tell us something about what lies below the surface. What could be causing the change in strength in the subsurface? o A Crater North of Coprates Chasma http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027775_1675 This image shows a fresh impact crater about 2 kilometers across. How do we know it is fresh? o Dunes on the Move http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_027864_2295 HiRISE has been carrying out a dedicated survey of sand dunes on Mars, determining whether and how fast the dunes move by observing repeatedly at intervals of Martian years. 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. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
