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 12 Jan 2023: Rock Layers Revealed in a Crater Wall
This image covers a small (approximately 3-kilometer wide) crater on the floor of a much larger crater that has been infilled by lava and/or sedimentary materials. The crater wall reveals layers with different colors and textures, providing a cross-section of the large-crater fill.
The bluish rocks are typically unaltered volcanics whereas the lighter-toned rock may have experienced alteration by water.
HiRISE 3D: A Landslide Scarp and Lobe
This is a fairly massive landslide, so understanding the mechanism will be interesting to figure out.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_076663_1540_ESP_076597_1540_RED
HiPOD 11 Jan 2023: The South Polar Residual Cap in Late Summer
The South Polar residual cap is especially interesting to image in the very late southern summer when seasonal frost is gone and the low-sun illumination accentuates subtle topography. Visible here is part of just one of many such images acquired in recent weeks.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076530_0955
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 4K: Gully Monitoring
Our science goal is to monitor high-latitude active gullies in Lyell Crater. Are the deposits and frost here fresh? See link for full cutout and additional info.
https://flic.kr/p/2oaGQXq
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Layers in a Trough on the East Side of Radau Crater’s Central Peak
This 3D pic can help to measure layer orientations and to check for inverted channels.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_075827_1970_ESP_076394_1970_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 10 Jan 2023: A Landslide Deposit in Melas Chasma
This image covers a large landslide deposit in Melas Chasma. The deposit front reveals bright rocks and color variations in distinct layers. Although transported for tens of kilometers, such landslide deposits can preserve the stratigraphy (rock layers) of the source region.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076568_1670
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 9 Jan 2023: An Ancient Lakebed in Huo Hsing Vallis
Huo Hsing Vallis is an ancient river valley named after the Chinese word for Mars. This view shows a very flat area with a dense pattern of rectilinear fractures, as often seen on dry lakebeds on Earth.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076576_2075
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Fine Layering in West Candor Chasma
Lots of fine layering visible in MOC images so we are taking a look in higher resolution.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_076410_1740_ESP_076133_1740_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 6 Jan 2023: Defrosting Dunes in Kunowsky Crater
In the late winter when first illuminated, the carbon dioxide frost at high latitudes will begin to sublimate. Over sand dunes, the defrosting spots and mass wasting on steep slopes produce striking patterns. This scene is especially artistic given the shapes of the dunes as well as the defrosting patterns.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076605_2370
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 5 Jan 2023: Troughs in the Nili Fossae Region
The Nili Fossae region contains excellent bedrock exposures with diverse colors. Here we highlight one region with intersecting troughs (linear depressions). The bright north-sound trending features are windblown (aeolian) ridges and are concentrated in the troughs.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076602_2020
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Boundary of Ophir Chasma and Candor Chasma
That’s quite a boundary marker!
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_076423_1750_ESP_076146_1750_RED
HiPOD 4 Jan 2023: Strange Formations
The floor of the Hellas impact basin, the lowest elevation on Mars, remains poorly explored because haze often blocks it from view. However, we recently got a clear image, revealing the strange banded terrain. These bands may be layers or flow bands or both.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076590_1380
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiClip mini 4K: The Path Not Traveled
This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound. See description for more info.
https://youtu.be/YppOLrDwBx4
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 3 Jan 23: Crater, Crater Shining Bright
With a nod to William Blake, this image features a bright, ice-filled crater in the North Polar layered deposits on Mars. Ice fill in these types of craters may be a site where accumulation can be observed. Are these layered deposits gaining or losing mass? Any change detection compared to a 2008 image will be small but still helpful.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_071742_2640
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 2 January 2023: Slopes in Ius Chasma
We observed potential candidates for recurring slope lineae at this location in an earlier observation, so we want to take another look. In this picture, the Sun is further north than the earlier image, so the illumination difference (incidence angle) can give us another perspective of the same terrain.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_071874_1705
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
What goes up must come down, so careful with those fireworks!
Happy New Year, puny humans!
HiRISE After Dark
#NowPlaying > Neil Diamond > Hot August Night > I Am...I Said (Live at the Greek Theatre, 1972)
https://music.apple.com/us/album/soolaimon-brother-loves-travelling-salvation-show-live/1443288776
HiRISE 3D: Sample Terrain inside Mclaughlin Crater
McLaughlin Crater, one of the deepest craters on Mars, contains magnesium-iron clays and carbonates that probably formed in a groundwater-fed alkaline lake.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_028354_2025_ESP_043070_2025_RED
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#Mars #science #NASA
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