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
Diverse Deposits in Melas Chasma
This scene includes chaotic deposits with a wide range of colors. The deposits are distinctive with both unique colors and small-scale textures such as fracture patterns.
These are probably sedimentary rocks, transported and deposited in water or air. The original layers may have been jumbled in a landslide. Dark or reddish sand dunes cover some of the bedrock.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_041134_1720
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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New Crater Blues
The blue appearance is due to the intense blast of the impact moving around dust on the surface. That dust is usually light-toned and reddish in color compared to what’s beneath it. When you remove the dust, you’re left with a dark spot that can sometimes be blue in comparison to the redder surroundings.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_053006_1980
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Summer Sand Dunes
Mars’ permanent north polar cap is ringed by sand dunes. In the winter and spring the dunes are covered by a seasonal cap of dry ice.
Here, we see the dark dunes in the summer, bare of seasonal frost. Two classic barchan dunes march across the rugged terrain. The long dark dune is crossing transverse aeolian ridges probably formed in a previous climate regime.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_044088_2640
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Frosted Gully Slopes in Shadows
This image was acquired just after the northern winter solstice, when Southern Hemisphere shadows are longest. However, the fine dust in the Martian atmosphere scatters light into the shadows, and HiRISE has the sensitivity to acquire useful images within shadows.
HiRISE 10K: Low-Order Inverted Streams near Juventae Chasma
The raised ridges are inverted channels. It is likely that liquid water, either pure or salt water, flowed through these channels.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2qaeFtC
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Tilted in Terra Cimmeria
The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of a tilted, layered deposit in a small crater. Also visible in Context Camera data, these features are relatively common in this area and some have odd shapes. They may have formed from mantle layers that have stacked up.
ID: ESP_075348_1405
date: 23 August 2022
altitude: 250 km
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_075348_1405
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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HiRISE 8K: Gullies in a Crater in Noachis Terra
The gullies shown in this image are similar to terrestrial gullies produced by flowing water.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2qa55YE
HiRISE 3D: Hillslope Shapes near Holden Crater
Landscapes such as rivers, deltas and alluvial fans have been studied extensively, proving to be reliable records of Mars’ paleoclimate, while hillslopes on Mars have largely been ignored.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_083002_1550_ESP_083859_1550_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
A Recent Cluster of Impacts
The dark spots in this enhanced-color infrared image are the recent impact craters that occurred in the Tharsis region between 2008 and 2014.
The dark halos around the resulting impact craters are a combination of the light-toned dust being cleared from the impact event and the deposition of the underlying dark toned materials as crater ejecta.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_047768_1995
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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At the Confluence of Nirgal and Uzboi Valles
These layers may have been fluvial, volcanic, or aeolian (wind-blown).
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2qa49Hp
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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HiRISE 3D: South Polar Carbon Dioxide Glacier Crevasses
These troughs are likely crevasses formed from glacial flow and their size and shape provide important information regarding the thickness and size of polar carbon dioxide.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_083900_0930_ESP_084031_0930_RED
The Southern Floor of Gale Crater
This image along the southern interior floor of Gale Crater hosts many different landforms. Light-toned, scabby, and presumably hydrated materials on the crater floor are covered by large, darker-toned dunes.
The small crater, about 2 kilometers in diameter, in the middle of the image is filled with an enigmatic deposit that appears to have flowed into the crater from the south.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_043961_1740
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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HiRISE 3D: A Region outside a Crater in Phlegra Montes
Phlegra Montes is a range of gently curving mountains and ridges on Mars. It extends from the northeastern portion of the Elysium volcanic province to the northern lowlands.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_083812_2170_ESP_066140_2170_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Topography of the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site
Here we have the first HiRISE-produced digital terrain model of the Mars Pathfinder landing site.
Terrain here is relatively flat with only approximately 300 meters of relief, mostly due the largest crater in the scene and the hills dubbed “Twin Peaks,” first imaged by Pathfinder.
ID: PSP_002391_1995
date: 29 January 2007
altitude: 284 km
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/PSP_002391_1995
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched 19 years ago today, carrying the best camera ever sent to another planet: HiRISE!
84,595 orbits later and still going.
Well done, carbon-units. Well done.
HiRISE 3D: Geological Contacts
Our goal is to explore the contact between the possible sulfates and chaos blocks within an older crater in eastern Iani Chaos.
Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_083766_1770_ESP_084056_1770_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Beautiful Blocks of Bedrock
This enhanced color image shows the wall of the crater, which exposes layering as well as blocks of rock. There is a distinctive large block in the upper left of the crater wall, generally referred to as a “mega-block.” Several smaller light-toned blocks are also in the crater wall, possibly of the same rock type as the “mega-block.”
HiRISE 3D: Terrain Sample in Aeolis Planum
The surface in this region has been heavily eroded by wind action.
Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_083892_1810_ESP_082969_1810_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Bedrock Exposures in Nirgal Vallis
This observation covers two tributaries and a main channel with light-toned bedrock throughout the scene. HiRISE provides a more detailed look at the stratigraphy. Nirgal Vallis is a long river channel about 610 kilometers long, and is named after Nergal, the Babylonian god of war and counterpart to the Roman god of war Mars.
ID: ESP_075156_1515
date: 8 August 2022
altitude: 255 km
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_075156_1515
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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HiRISE 3D: An Inverted Channel in Noachis Terra
This observation is part of a much wider network of inverted channels in Noachis.
Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_083646_1605_ESP_083936_1605_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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