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: 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
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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.
HiPOD: Colorful Terrain South of Eos Chasma
Much of this image is dominated by an impact crater roughly 8 kilometers wide, which appears filled with sand ripples and also irregular mounds whose origin is unclear. The crater’s walls and the plains north of it exhibit a wide range of colors, some of which could be volcanic rocks whereas others likely record past interactions with water.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_079719_1595
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiRISE 3D: A Well-Preserved 1 to 2 Kilometer Impact Crater
A very odd-shaped crater: what might have altered the shape?
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_042694_1590_ESP_037208_1590_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD 27 Oct 23: Channeling Newton Crater
This observation focuses on a meandering channel within the nearly 300-kilometer diameter Newton Crater. On Earth, subglacial channels may flow uphill, so is the slope profile of these channels in Newton consistent with subglacial channels?
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074422_1405
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiRISE After Dark
#NowPlaying > Puppet > Listen to the Storm
https://music.apple.com/us/album/listen-to-the-storm/1175678147
HiRISE 8K: Santa Fe Crater Impact Processes
Because this is a well-preserved impact crater, the high-resolution image here captures several important aspects of larger impact craters.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pbF6En
HiRISE 3D: Lava Falls in Northern Kasei Valles
Data from THEMIS shows curious small channels leading over the edge here, where the main lava flow comes up to the edge of the cliff.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/PSP_005610_2025_ESP_040659_2025_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
HiPOD: V but Not for Vendetta
The rationale submitted for this observation is simple: the objective is to determine the nature of a prominent V-shaped ridge, in addition to the other ridges in this otherwise flat terrain. This scene is also in a Context Camera image.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074417_2100
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiRISE 4K: Gullies on the Northwest Rim of Hale Crater
This image covers part of the northwest rim of Hale Crater. Gullies have formed down the interior rim of the crater in this location.
Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pbvQd7
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #space #NASA #astronomy #geology
HiRISE 3D: A Candidate ExoMars Landing Site Near Hypanis Valles
This observation is near the center of a 2018 landing ellipse including some hills which may be remnants of overburden.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_039735_1920_ESP_040658_1920_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 25 Oct 23: Layers and Sinuous Ridges in a Crater
Context Camera data shows flat-lying layers, sinuous ridges, and possible moraines in this crater. HiRISE resolution is needed to test the moraine hypothesis (alternative: deformed layers), and to determine the relative timing between sinuous ridge formation, flat-lying layer deposition, and moraine formation.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074405_1545
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiRISE 3D: Incipient Collapse at Cerberus Fossae
Cerberus Fossae with several parallel minor fractures, suggesting that this slope is unstable and likely to fail at some point--probably a good place for slope stability modeling.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_032791_1895_ESP_040835_1895_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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HiPOD 24 Oct 23: Exposures of Bedrock
This observation was requested for co-analysis with the CRISM instrument (and other datasets) to help determine the origins of the diverse materials exposed in a number of massifs associated with the massive Hellas impact basin. High resolution will be helpful for fine-scale details, like bedrock textures and breccias.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074387_1540
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Possible Polyhydrated Sulfate Deposits in East Melas Chasma
OMEGA detected sulfates associated with a variety of layers, textures and thermo-physical characteristics in the south portion of a layered outcrop.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_040936_1670_PSP_003487_1670_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
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