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
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Does the Hyades star cluster harbor black holes?
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HiRISE 8K: Light and Dark Features
When viewed at full HiRISE resolution, this area contains sand ripples with some consolidated, bedrock-like material poking through.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2oUJKgz
HiClip: A Crater in Scalloped Terrain
Sublimation might be responsible for creating two different landforms: scalloped depressions and expanded craters.
Narrated by Tre Gibbs.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: Possible Channel Heading into a Crater
This could be a possible inflow from a very small catchment.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_079019_1945_ESP_079375_1945_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 10 Aug 23: A New Crater in the Martian South Pole
Our science goal with this observation is to monitor the frosting and defrosting of a new, small impact crater on the South Polar layered deposits. This image can help us to understand better the thermophysical properties and changes in the crater ejecta the first few years after the crater formed. The crater is about 50 meters (164 ft) across.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073949_0980
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiClip: Slipping and Sliding in Echus Chaos
Echus Chaos is a region of low hills located between Lunae Planum and Echus Palus. This chaos terrain may have formed as the rocks that make up Lunae Planum slowly slid downhill into Echus Palus.
Narrated by Tre Gibbs.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 4K: Martian Barchans
Barchan dunes are common on both Earth and Mars. These dunes are very distinctive in shape, and are important because they can tell scientists about the environment in which they formed.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2oUu3FH
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona
HiRISE 3D: A Vent and Channel Northeast of Arsia Mons
This small vent appears to have raised margins and sources sinuous channels. It is aligned with other fissures on the northeast flank apron of Arsia Mons.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_079326_1730_ESP_078693_1730_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 9 Aug 23: Tilted in Electris
This is an interesting feature that appears to be a large anticline that is crosscut by wrinkle ridges. Our science goal is to investigate structure and timing relationships. A digital terrain model can help us with structural measurements. The Electris region of Mars contains interesting features, such as raised-relief blocks of material.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073948_1435
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiClip mini 4K: The Secret Life of Layers
This image shows a large outcrop of layered rock in Tithonium Chasma, a part of the Valles Marineris trough system. (This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound.)
HiRISE 3D: A Pit or Crater near Galaxias Chaos
Context Camera data shows a strange depression here: a broad depression with a flat floor and a central elliptical depression. Is this a bullseye crater? An unusual “expanded” crater? Pit crater?
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_033332_2155_ESP_042088_2155_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: Spectrally Distinct Materials in Tyrrhena Terra
HiWish strikes again! This public target reads: “We are studying the relationship between specific spectral signatures and morphology (shape) associated with impact craters. This particular location has CRISM mapping signatures indicating that a closer observation and analysis may be valuable for our study.” (CRISM is a spectrometer onboard MRO.)
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073925_1775
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiClip: A Look at a Steep North Polar Scarp
This observation was an attempt to image in late northern winter, in spite of poor illumination. Narrated by Tre Gibbs.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: A Pit Crater on Pavonis Mons
This was spotted by the Context Camera, and is probably a relatively deep pit crater. Worth a closer look with higher sun angle.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_041900_1805_ESP_033935_1805_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 7 Aug 23: Sand Dunes near Huygens Crater
This image footprint is located close to the eastern rim of the 467-kilometer diameter Huygens Crater, located in Sabaea Terra. The objective of this observation is to examine a field of sand dunes in an unusual location and that are parallel to each other. In Context Camera data, they appear very bright.
ID: ESP_073926_1650
date: 4 May 2022
altitude: 258 km
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073926_1650
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: In the Aeolis Region
This appears to be an inverted/eroded sedimentary fan with an associated ridge (inverted stream channel?).
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_033174_1735_ESP_042919_1735_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 4 Aug 23: A Landform in Ares Vallies
Another request from HiWish, this one to complete a stereo pair: “A HiRISE image is required to study tectonic deformation of Ares Vallis. A digital terrain model from a stereo pair can show the angle of fault plains. It is important to understand the degree of deformation to determine elevation changes across the region.”
ID: ESP_073916_1950
date: 3 May 2022
altitude: 280 km
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073916_1950
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiClip: Glacial (Ice) or Lava Flow?
The geologic setting and latitude here suggest this is a glacial (ice-rich) flow, but the surface is broken into plates like many lava flows on Mars. (Narrated by Tre Gibbs.)
https://youtu.be/pGPgZQN5sc0
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: An Impact with Secondary Craters
This anaglyph can help us to understand the nature of the formation of Vastitas Borealis (where this is located) and why small craters are generally extremely rare over this geological region.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_042292_2195_ESP_042793_2195_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 3 Aug 23: A Streamlined Island in Aonia Terra
A public target request from HiWish: A close image of this island within a channel, which splits and broadens the channel to its south, might tell us more about the course of the flow through the region. HiRISE can look for erosion features on both the channel rim and the island.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073918_1360
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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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