HiPOD: Light-Toned Chaos

Often times, observations are planned to fill in HiRISE coverage where there is image data from other instruments, in this case, from CRISM, also on MRO. Aram Chaos is a 280-kilometer diameter impact crater at the eastern end of the massive Valles Marineris canyon system. The mineral hematite has been located here, signature of a once aqueous environment.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074865_1835
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 8K: In Kasei Valles

This is a streamlined island, one of many observed in the large outflow channels on Mars.

Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pC2D3M

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HiRISE 3D: Nili Fossae Polygonal Ridges

The science goal is to obtain a stereo pair of the ridges for production of DEM in order to obtain high resolution digital elevation, width, and height measurements.

Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_081811_2025_ESP_081745_2025_RED
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HiPOD: Dunes Tell in Bonestell

This observation was requested to obtain an image for dune monitoring and the onset of seasonal frost within Bonestell Crater, a relatively young crater located in Acidalia Planitia. Dust blown into the crater and the downslope movement of fine materials from the rim are slowly modifying the crater features. This image can be useful for detailed surface measurements.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074852_2220
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 4K: Complex Terrain East of Holden Crater

This observation covers the Martian surface just to the east of the 150 kilometer-diameter Holden Crater in southwestern Margaritifer Terra.

Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pBUHsV

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HiRISE 3D: Inverted Features and Layers South of Moreux Crater

This location show multiple inverted features and layers, which analysis is important to understand the mechanisms responsible for the relief inversion and the stratigraphy of the area.

Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_081667_2190_ESP_081812_2190_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

HiPOD: The Chaos of It All

The science rationale for this observation was to look at stratigraphic relationships in amongst chaos blocks and adjacent geological units. HiRISE resolution can also help us to examine fine-scale layers and a digital terrain model can be used to constrain those stratigraphic relationships. The scene is located in Hydaspis Chaos, where many large, ancient river valleys are found.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074852_1825
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiClip mini 4K: Along the Path of Mr. K

This image covers a small section of Hebes Chasma. (This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound.)

https://youtu.be/6mmmc5_aK-Q

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HiRISE 3D: Diverse Bedrock Exposures

This anaglyph shows a well-exposed massif with diverse bedrock exposures north of Hellas region.

Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_081917_1565_ESP_081574_1565_RED
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HiPOD: Delta or Fan?

Delta or fan deposits indicate past water activity. HiRISE can resolve sedimentary characteristics such as layering, stratigraphic relationship to the surrounding geologic setting or distributary channels that cannot be resolved by other camera experiments.

ID: ESP_074848_2040
date: 15 July 2022
altitude: 284 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074848_2040
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: Hillslope Shapes near Holden Crater

What was the source of the runoff that helped shape these hills and their slopes?

Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_082000_1550_ESP_081723_1550_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

HiPOD: Gully Study

The gullies and their small fans in this impact crater are suggestive of recurring slope lineae. Are there fresh deposits here? The crater is less than 5 kilometers in diameter and the scene is located in Terra Cimmeria, to east of the massive Hellas impact basin.

ID: ESP_074833_1460
date: 14 July 2022
altitude: 254 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074833_1460
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 10K: A Simple Crater

Sometimes, the nicest pictures we acquire don’t need a long explanation, so we are parking this image of the northern part of large, less than 5-km diameter crater for your visual enjoyment.

Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pAWk46

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HiPOD: Layered Features in Northern Mid-Latitudes

The objective of this observation is to examine several sets of layered features. Some are dipping and others are horizontal. Some are in craters, and another within a depression. The scene can be found in Context Camera image data.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074824_2125
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 8K: In Tyrrhena Terra

Tyrrhena Terra is located in the cratered highlands of the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. It is one of the regions where instruments like OMEGA and CRISM (the latter also on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) have identified numerous detections of hydrated silicates.

Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pAMjrM
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

HiRISE 3D: An Eye on You

From the rationale: “This feature has been suggested to have formed after Athabasca Valles was first carved and thus is evidence for multiple floods. The idea is hooey, but CTX is not sufficient to prove that.”

https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_040176_1895_ESP_030009_1895_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD: Fossae East of Arsia Mons

Our science goal with this observation is to examine a vent-like structure in the floor of a graben that is part of a larger fossae system partially buried by numerous flows. We want to determine the relationship of the possible vent to the graben and adjacent flow units, and look for any deposits related to the vent.

ID: ESP_074829_1720
date: 14 July 2022
altitude: 254 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074829_1720
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiIRSE 4K Possible Olivine on the Floor of a Crater in Northern Hellas Planitia

Olivine is a common silicate mineral that comes from magma generated in the mantle of Mars (this same process occurs on Earth as well).

Full cutout on Flickr:
https://flic.kr/p/2pACDRG

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: The Skin of Smaug

Well, really just a stunning exposure of the South Polar layered deposits on Mars.

https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_040177_0935_ESP_040295_0935_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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