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
HiRISE 3D: At the Root of It All
This fairly large gully looks like a plant and its roots. One of our objectives is to look for frost developing in the winter months.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_057420_1305_ESP_022225_1305_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 2 May 2022: Potentially Layered Bedrock Deposits in Terra Sabaea
This observation targets a region with suspected layered bedrock materials. The texture of this target at Context Camera resolution is similar to other HiRISE observations where layered bedrock was found. Imaging of this bedrock material will allow study of variations in the thickness and style of layering across the region. Terra Sabaea is 4,700 km at its broadest extent.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_069655_1510
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 30 Apr 2022: Windows to Ancient Mars
The Argyre impact basin contains some ancient eroded terrains, exposing rocks with diverse compositions, as shown by the color variability.
These are windows into ancient Mars, which was a wetter world than Mars today.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_020799_1385
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 4K: Seasonal Fans in the Southern Hemisphere
Is it the skin of a leopard or seasonal fans on Mars? (Click link for more info and full cutout.)
https://flic.kr/p/2ngKzbL
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: All the Pretty Gullies
Talk about striking a pose. These lovely gullies are in Lyell Crater.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_067163_1105_ESP_021840_1105_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 26 Apr 2022: Sinuous Ridges and Possible Layers
A Context Camera image shows sinuous ridges and possible layers at this location, which is within an alluvial-fan-bearing crater. One possible interpretation is that erosion has formed inverted channels and incised them into distal alluvial fan or deltaic materials. A derived 3D image can help look for “double ridges” that might be bracketing inverted channels.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065711_1545
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Distal Extent of Inverted Delta Material
This target covers a distal outcrop of a layered bright sedimentary unit exposed in an inverted form. This will help estimate the duration and stratigraphy of fluvial processes.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_064631_1925_ESP_072690_1925_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 25 April 2022: Esker Candidates in Mamers Valles
An esker is a long ridge of sediment deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet. Although glaciers are common on Mars, in the prevailing very cold and dry climate they are thought to be almost exclusively cold-based systems, which do not experience subglacial melt.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065710_2170
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 22 Apr 2022: Layers to the West of Gale Crater
The objective of this observation is to examine thin layers in the Nepenthes Mensae region. Because this location is close to Gale Crater, these layers may one day be compared to those currently being studied by the Curiosity rover. Nepenthes Mensae is a plateau, whose name derives from Greek for a drug that quells all sorrows with forgetfulness and is mentioned in Homer’s “Odyssey.”
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_055565_1750
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: Jezero Crater
Just a 3D image of the surface of another planet. Ho hum.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_072422_1985_ESP_064165_1985_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 21 Apr 2022: Slow Changes at an Old Impact Crater
New impact craters on Mars are often darker than their surroundings and have lots of boulders in their interior. The crater in this image has all those attributes and looks like it may have occurred very recently; however, it’s been seen in images dating back 50 years to the Mariner 9 mission.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072719_1970
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 4K: The Western Edge of a Layered Mound in Juventae Chasma
This observation covers the western edge of a layered mound in Juventae Chasma. The CRISM instrument on MRO has detected high sulfates at the base of this mound, and the resolution power of HiRISE gives us a better look at the area’s morphology. (See link for full cutout.)
HiRISE 3D: Monitoring Gullies in Gasa Crater
Part of a series to get one more image with frost, and then when defrosting sets in to see the changes, if any.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_071827_1440_ESP_018327_1440_RED
HiPOD 20 Apr 2022: Recent Gullies in Equatorial Valles Marineris
In this scene, the gullies have very sharp channels and different colors where the gullies have eroded and deposited material. Over time, the topography becomes smoothed over and the color variations disappear, unless there is recent activity.
HiPOD 19 Apr 2022: Layered Sediments in Valles Marineris
Sediments rich in hydrated sulfates may have filled central Valles Marineris, but debates persist as to how these deposits grew or formed.
HiPOD 18 Apr 2022: A Fresh Impact Crater with an Odd Shape
This odd-shaped hole in Noachis Terra is clearly in impact crater. It has the characteristic raised rim that distinguishes it from pits that have simply collapsed. In contrast to most impact craters though, it isn't round.
HiPOD 16 Apr 2022: Which Came First, the Yardang or the Platy Flow?
It's one of the great questions of science, people.
HiPOD 15 Apr 2022: Dusty Changes with InSight
This image, from 9 March 2022, shows the InSight lander with a visible coating of reddish Martian dust that has accumulated since the landing (November 2018) and especially during the January 2022 storm. The dark blast zone created during the landing has also been substantially covered up and looks close to its pre-landing condition.
HiRISE 10K: Channels in Phlegra Montes
Also visible in a Context Camera image, pictures like this can help us understand the fluvial and climate history of ancient Mars. (See link for full cutout and additional information.)
HiRISE 3D: An Interesting Shape
But it’s the light-toned layered deposits that are the objective of this observation. Were fluvial processes once at work here?
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_072668_1540_ESP_072958_1540_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
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