HiRISE (NASA)
HiRISE is a high resolution camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA). We take images of the surface of Mars. Based out of UArizona in Tucson.
Joined Aug 2018
HiPOD: Fractures in West Candor Chasma
Our objective for this observation is change detection of youthful fractures observed in an image we acquired in 2007. Are these fractures active? These layers have been shifted along faults and also folded, giving the layers a wavy appearance as they are exposed at the surface through erosion.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074432_1735
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 4K: Chryse Planitia Surfaces
This image shows part of the surface of Chryse Planitia, near the mouth of several of the giant outflow channels carved by massive floods. At this location the channel is much too large to be seen within a HiRISE image, and this shows an area of level plains near the mouth.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2peC3MA
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D Extra: High-Latitude Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits
Stereo was requested for this location because MOLA data is very sparse here.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_019117_2720_ESP_019050_2720_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: A Simple Gullied Crater
This is a repeat image of a gullied crater for look for change detection, especially seasonal frost.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_040251_1345_ESP_040607_1345_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD: An Elongated Mound Northwest of Oxia Planum
This is a geomorphologically unique mound, with distinctive layering visible in Context Camera imagery. This HiRISE observation allows for better resolution of the layers, which may aid in our understanding of their mode of formation and depositional environment.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074430_2000
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: Sharp Mounds near Huygens Crater
The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of a group of sharp mounds. Most are angled and have straight sides. They only appear in one spot in a Context Camera image of the same area.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074427_1660
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: Light-Toned Exposures in Margaritifer Terra
The CaSSIS instrument detected in this clay-rich area some peculiar round deposits.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_080417_1750_ESP_079296_1750_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD: A Circular Feature Crosscut by a Lava Channel
This scene shows a circular feature about 3 kilometers in diameter with raised rims surrounded and infilled by lavas.
The circular formation is likely an eroded impact crater whose walls have been breached by the lava as it surrounded the rim and then infilled the crater. Alternatively, it could represent the location of a volcanic vent that sourced some of the lavas that formed the channel.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_079260_2030
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: A Mound with a View
This image from the southern floor of Gale Crater shows narrow curvy ridges that connect to larger fan-shaped deposits. These narrow ridges were once the floor of a channel that are now standing in positive relief because the finer-grained material on the flanks of the channel has been blown away by the wind.
HiPOD: A Colorful New Crater
This image shows a small, colorful new crater near the equator of Mars, first detected by the Context Camera. The distinctive color of all of the ejecta shows that the surface material is different from the subsurface.
HiPOD: Volcanoes and Collapses
Volcanoes come with their own underground plumbing systems that move molten rock around and feed eruptions onto the surface. Sometimes these plumbing systems can drain causing collapses of the ground above them.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080227_2015
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: Debris from a Former Martian Glacier
Many mesas, hills, or mounds in the mid-latitudes of Mars show features extending from their walls that are called lobate debris aprons (LDAs). These LDA have been interpreted as debris-covered glaciers and have been shown by radar data to have nearly pure ice content beneath the meters-thick debris layer.
HiPOD: Colorful Terrain South of Eos Chasma
Much of this image is dominated by an impact crater roughly 8 kilometers wide, which appears filled with sand ripples and also irregular mounds whose origin is unclear. The crater’s walls and the plains north of it exhibit a wide range of colors, some of which could be volcanic rocks whereas others likely record past interactions with water.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_079719_1595
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiRISE 3D: A Well-Preserved 1 to 2 Kilometer Impact Crater
A very odd-shaped crater: what might have altered the shape?
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_042694_1590_ESP_037208_1590_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 27 Oct 23: Channeling Newton Crater
This observation focuses on a meandering channel within the nearly 300-kilometer diameter Newton Crater. On Earth, subglacial channels may flow uphill, so is the slope profile of these channels in Newton consistent with subglacial channels?
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074422_1405
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE After Dark
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https://music.apple.com/us/album/listen-to-the-storm/1175678147
HiRISE 8K: Santa Fe Crater Impact Processes
Because this is a well-preserved impact crater, the high-resolution image here captures several important aspects of larger impact craters.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pbF6En
HiRISE 3D: Lava Falls in Northern Kasei Valles
Data from THEMIS shows curious small channels leading over the edge here, where the main lava flow comes up to the edge of the cliff.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/PSP_005610_2025_ESP_040659_2025_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: V but Not for Vendetta
The rationale submitted for this observation is simple: the objective is to determine the nature of a prominent V-shaped ridge, in addition to the other ridges in this otherwise flat terrain. This scene is also in a Context Camera image.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074417_2100
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiRISE 4K: Gullies on the Northwest Rim of Hale Crater
This image covers part of the northwest rim of Hale Crater. Gullies have formed down the interior rim of the crater in this location.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pbvQd7
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #space #NASA #astronomy #geology
HiRISE (NASA)
HiRISE is a high resolution camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA). We take images of the surface of Mars. Based out of UArizona in Tucson.
Joined Aug 2018