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 3 Feb 23: A Channel in Cydonia Mensae
This observation was a public suggestion using HiWish from a class studying Mars: there are several channels nearby a ridge region. These channels lead from the region towards a crater that has an irregular rim. Possible fluvial processes occurred at this area. Dunes with thin crests line the channel floor and are oriented in the same direction.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072201_2140
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 2 Feb 23: Sand Monitoring in Pasteur Crater
Pasteur Crater is about 116 kilometers in diameter and most of the dark dunes are clustered in the southwest area. This observation of wind-blown (aeolian) dunes superposed on wind-blown ripples can help us look for bedform changes from earlier pictures. The source of the dark sand might be local, such as from smaller impact craters inside Pasteur that excavated sediments.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072147_1995
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 1 February 2023: Crater Floor Features Northeast of Reull Vallis
The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of features on the floor of a small crater. Part of the floor is covered with rough-ridged material. One side has smooth walls; the other side seems to have material moving toward the middle since it has grooves that are barely visible in a Context Camera image.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076878_1450
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Landing in Jezero
A great throwback to images looking for a landing spot for Perseverance. HiRISE anaglyphs are crucial for teams looking for candidate sites for touchdown and exploration.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #space #NASA #astronomy
HiPOD 31 Jan 23: Layered Features in a Promethei Terra Crater
The objective of this observation is to examine a crater that contains two layered, mesa-like forms. They may be the remains of a unit that once covered a wide area. Pictures like this will help us determine the extent of that area.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076641_1430
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Convoluted Folds along the Floor of Ius Chasma
A CRISM image shows lots of subtle mineral changes so a high resolution pic can help to see any corresponding shape variations.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 30 Jan 23: A Depression in the Northern Mid-Latitudes
Also visible in a Context Camera image, the objective of this observation is to examine a depression. There may be ice in the ground at this location because there is a ring-mold crater on the depression’s floor.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076674_2160
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD 29 Jan 2023: Gullies on the Wall of an Unnamed Crater in Utopia Planitia
This enhanced-color image of gullies in the northern wall of an unnamed crater in Utopia Planitia covers an area of approximately 750 by 1100 meters. The banked, sinuous shape of the gully channels suggest that water was involved in their formation. The source of this water however is a subject of debate.
HiPOD 28 Jan 2023: Possible Sulfates in the Northeast Syrtis Major Region
A variety of diverse morphological features are present in this image located in the southeastern area of the Nili Fossae region and just northeast of Syrtis Major.
In this infrared color close-up image, we can see a mesa, along with aeolian (wind-blown) dunes and yellow-colored deposits.
HiPOD 27 Jan 2023: A Cool Hobby
This image in the Southern Highlands shows colorful layered sediments inside a crater northwest of Hellas. This target was suggested by a member of the public.
HiClip: A New Impact Event (narrated by Tre Gibbs)
HiPOD 26 Jan 2023: A New Impact Event
This impact disturbed dust over an area more than two kilometers wide, large enough to be visible in MARCI daily global images. The largest new crater is about 35 meters in diameter, making it the about the 16th largest new crater found on Mars.
Read more: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076590_2180
HiPOD 25 Jan 23: A Bear on Mars?
This feature looks a bit like a bear’s face. What is it really?
There’s a hill with a V-shaped collapse structure (the nose), two craters (the eyes), and a circular fracture pattern (the head). The circular fracture pattern might be due to the settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater. Maybe the nose is a volcanic or mud vent and the deposit could be lava or mud flows?
Maybe just grin and bear it.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076769_1380
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
A close-up view of Comet ZTF during 19th January 2023. Besides featuring a wonderful greenish coma and rare anti-tail, something unusual was happening with the long ion tail, what is called a disconnection event. Credit: © Miguel Claro
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