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: Goin’ By
Small river channels might help to prove fluvial activity on Mars, and this anaglyph will help us learn about age of these landforms and possible correlations between Earth and Martian rivers
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_066531_2085_ESP_075539_2085_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 21 Nov 2022: A Layered Butte near Mawrth Vallis
This landform has many interesting characteristics like bright-toned layering at the meter scale and fracturing. This image can help us understand how the thickness of the bright-toned deposit changes over time, as these features might be outliers of the Mawrth Vallis plateau and could hold clues to the stratigraphy of the surrounding Chryse region.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072096_2065
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 16 Nov 2022: Bedrock on the Floor of a Crater
This image shows exposed bedrock on floor of an impact crater that is also visible in a CaSSIS observation. However, that image did not contain optimal bands for exposed rock. Higher resolution enhanced color will help to study the topography in detail.
ID: ESP_070447_1700
date: 6 August 2021
altitude: 263 km
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_070447_1700
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Landforms Northeast of Hale Crater
Describing this scene as “rugged” might be an understatement.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_075591_1455_ESP_066451_1455_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 14 Nov 2022: Crater Mounds in Chryse Planitia
This landform shows distinctive layering in Context Camera images, and is atypical in its interaction with the surrounding plains. It appears to delineate underlying craters. Understanding the connection between these landforms and the craters they delineate is vital to our knowledge of their formation.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_075485_2025
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 13 Nov 2022: Seeing Beneath the Surface in Morava Valles
Morava Valles is a small outflow channel in the Margaritifer Sinus region of Mars. Several of the interior channels of Morava emanate from a localized region of terrain that is caving in, also called “subsidence.”
HiPOD 12 Nov 2022: Polar Layered Deposit Slopes
These deposits are quite extensive and partially surround the South Polar residual cap. In this beautiful enhanced color image we see fractured bedrock partially coated in carbon dioxide frost.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_039122_1080
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 11 Nov 2022: Sinuous Ridges near Juventae Chasma
A 2007 HiRISE image shows very finely branched channels running west to east in this observation. Inverted channels crosscut negative-relief channels and stratigraphic relations are complex. A stereo pair will help to unscramble the relationship to local topography and determine the influence of present-day tilt. We can also study slope-area relations and drainage divides.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_066452_1755
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 10 Nov 2022: Remembrance of Impacts Past
Utopia Planitia is a region well-known for its periglacial features such as polygonal-patterned ground. In order to study the mode of formation of these polygons, and the subsequent relationship with the subsurface geology, this crater presents an intriguing lobate infilling and is a particularly interesting target.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072025_2290
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: The Stunning Beauty of Aram Chaos
What a wonderful view of chaotic terrain in 3D! This image was requested to give additional coverage over existing CRISM data.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_075432_1840_ESP_075788_1840_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 9 Nov 2022: Terraced in Utopia
This type of crater formation has been used in Arcadia Planitia to estimate the thickness and radar properties of mantling units, but there don’t seem to be very many here Utopia Planitia. Existing images have significant shadows. Stereo will help us to also look at boulders and polygons.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072039_2190
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: A Possible Gully in a Southern Mid-Latitude Crater
The objective of this observation is to examine a possible gully. The apron consists of a group of ridges instead of being wide and smooth. Perhaps, this gully system has just started to form.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_074996_1310_ESP_075563_1310_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 8 Nov 2022: Erosion of Scalloped Terrain
In this observation, it looks like we can view a couple of erosional windows in the scalloped (ice-rich) unit. This area is a good place for imaging samples of the contact to understand the deposition and erosion. We can also sample boulders and polygons at full resolution. Expansion and contraction of underground ice is responsible for the polygon formation.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072026_2225
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Terrain in Hebes Chasma
Our goal is to investigate a possible landslide within the stratified sediments and detect any compositional variants.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_075566_1785_ESP_075856_1785_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 7 Nov 2022: This Little Field of Dunes
Our goal with this observation is to capture as much of the dune field in Dein Crater as possible in order to investigate seasonal dune changes. This small area has no previous HiRISE coverage. Dein Crater is named after the town of Dein in New Guinea and is about 25 kilometers in diameter and is located to the south of Bamberg Crater.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072016_2185
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 4 Nov 2022: Layers inside Cassini Crater
The objective of this observation is to examine thin layers along a depression that we can use to compare to others in Arabia Terra. Some have characteristics like thickness and roughness that can be discovered with Context Camera images, but HiRISE can resolve more details so that the layers can be more closely matched across a vast horizontal areas and at different depths.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_057059_2045
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Moar Scarp!
Yet another 3D image of a cliff, where we want to look for retreat of the scarp with minimal icy coloration.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_074731_1225_ESP_075443_1225_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Moar Scarp!
Yet another 3D image of a cliff, where we want to look for retreat of the scarp with minimal icy coloration.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_074731_1225_ESP_075443_1225_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiPOD 3 Nov 2022: Volcanic Features around Ceraunius Fossae
This image features three volcanic features in one location. The first is a north-south linear depression that is heavily influenced by topography. Over an east-west aligned depression, the feature has a shape similar to an effusive volcanic vent. Finally to the south, we see the depression has a crater chain morphology.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_057051_2050
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Scarp Monitoring
This scarp (cliff) has the shape of an ice exposure, but only a little coloration. Does it ever get cleaned off (lag) or is this the color of the bulk ice?
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_074742_1255_ESP_075454_1255_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