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: Drainage Divide Migration in Tyrrhena Terra
A profiling method can determine the history of drainage migration in bedrock-erosion landscapes, but only with high-resolution terrain models as input. HiRISE stereo was requested as Context Camera digital terrain model resolution would likely not be adequate for this purpose.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074439_1525
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE Epigrammata
“Now small fowls flew, screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”
—Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”
HiRISE 10K: A Bounty of Dark Dunes
The North Polar layered deposits (NPLD) are a stack of dusty water-ice layers that are thought to record information about past Martian climates.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pePRMU
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: Rappeler’s Delight!
Scarps such as this have either active mass wasting or potential for current mass wasting. Comparison to previous years helps to document new activity in scarp erosion.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_036906_2640_ESP_036576_2640_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiPOD: Eroded Sedimentary Rock Layers
The layered sedimentary rocks of Mars are of interest as indicators of ancient climate change. This scene was also captured in stereo so stereo anaglyphs are available to show the dramatic steep slopes of this eroded landscape.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080568_1670
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
50 Years Ago, the First Probe to Visit Mercury Launched
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/50-years-ago-probe-mercury-launch
HiRISE 8K: Streaks Emanating from Hale Crater
This image shows areas of bedrock (light areas) that appear to have been grooved or scoured in a uniform direction.
Full cutout on Flickr-> https://flic.kr/p/2pePMNS
HiRISE 3D: Alluvial Fans in Southeastern Mojave Crater
Love, love, LUV Mojave Crater! Our objective is to characterize grain and topographic shape.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_039695_1875_ESP_040618_1875_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: Fractures in West Candor Chasma
Our objective for this observation is change detection of youthful fractures observed in an image we acquired in 2007. Are these fractures active? These layers have been shifted along faults and also folded, giving the layers a wavy appearance as they are exposed at the surface through erosion.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074432_1735
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 4K: Chryse Planitia Surfaces
This image shows part of the surface of Chryse Planitia, near the mouth of several of the giant outflow channels carved by massive floods. At this location the channel is much too large to be seen within a HiRISE image, and this shows an area of level plains near the mouth.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2peC3MA
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D Extra: High-Latitude Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits
Stereo was requested for this location because MOLA data is very sparse here.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_019117_2720_ESP_019050_2720_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: A Simple Gullied Crater
This is a repeat image of a gullied crater for look for change detection, especially seasonal frost.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_040251_1345_ESP_040607_1345_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD: An Elongated Mound Northwest of Oxia Planum
This is a geomorphologically unique mound, with distinctive layering visible in Context Camera imagery. This HiRISE observation allows for better resolution of the layers, which may aid in our understanding of their mode of formation and depositional environment.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074430_2000
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: Sharp Mounds near Huygens Crater
The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of a group of sharp mounds. Most are angled and have straight sides. They only appear in one spot in a Context Camera image of the same area.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074427_1660
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE 3D: Light-Toned Exposures in Margaritifer Terra
The CaSSIS instrument detected in this clay-rich area some peculiar round deposits.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_080417_1750_ESP_079296_1750_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiPOD: A Circular Feature Crosscut by a Lava Channel
This scene shows a circular feature about 3 kilometers in diameter with raised rims surrounded and infilled by lavas.
The circular formation is likely an eroded impact crater whose walls have been breached by the lava as it surrounded the rim and then infilled the crater. Alternatively, it could represent the location of a volcanic vent that sourced some of the lavas that formed the channel.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_079260_2030
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: A Mound with a View
This image from the southern floor of Gale Crater shows narrow curvy ridges that connect to larger fan-shaped deposits. These narrow ridges were once the floor of a channel that are now standing in positive relief because the finer-grained material on the flanks of the channel has been blown away by the wind.
HiPOD: A Colorful New Crater
This image shows a small, colorful new crater near the equator of Mars, first detected by the Context Camera. The distinctive color of all of the ejecta shows that the surface material is different from the subsurface.
HiPOD: Volcanoes and Collapses
Volcanoes come with their own underground plumbing systems that move molten rock around and feed eruptions onto the surface. Sometimes these plumbing systems can drain causing collapses of the ground above them.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080227_2015
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: Debris from a Former Martian Glacier
Many mesas, hills, or mounds in the mid-latitudes of Mars show features extending from their walls that are called lobate debris aprons (LDAs). These LDA have been interpreted as debris-covered glaciers and have been shown by radar data to have nearly pure ice content beneath the meters-thick debris layer.
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