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: Crater-Delineating Mounds in Chryse Planitia
Similar HiRISE images of mounds around Chryse Planitia have revealed stunning and complex meter- and decameter-scale stratigraphy, indicative of widespread, regional-scale processes. This mound shares characteristics with those landforms, so is important to document.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_079784_2055
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: A Small Vent in the Tharsis Region
It might look lonely, but it definitely looks interesting in 3D.
Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_079286_1780_ESP_079853_1780_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD: Fossa in Orcus Patera
This public target from HiWish requested to investigate the relationship between the dark spots in the fossa and surrounding dark mantle deposits. Orcus Patera was first imaged by Mariner 4, and is a depression about 380 kilometers long and 140 kilometers wide. Its formation is unkown.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074739_1935
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 10K: Complex Folded Terrain on the Floor of the Hellas Impact Basin
This image shows some of the most complex deformed terrain on Mars. Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2puuDxt
HiRISE 3D: Layers in Crater near Tinjar Valles
Tinjar Valles are a set of outflow channels about 425 km in length.
Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_079897_2135_ESP_079198_2135_RED
HiPOD: Etchings of a Barren World
These fascinating features are likely caused by sublimation that produces furrows in the surface and have not yet been filled-in with material. Our science goal for this observation was simple: to study wind direction in the spring in a sparsely sampled region at the South Pole of Mars.
https://uahirise.org/ESP_074763_0975
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 8K: Exposure of the South Polar Layered Deposits
These South Polar layered deposits show interesting wavy patterns that may be due either to simple erosion or to some kind of flow and folding. Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2putFT1
HiRISE 3D: Branching Deposits in Southeast Aeolis Dorsa
Branching deposits in this area have been shown to be consistent with river deltas. Here, we want to make similar measurements of the delta deposits in this region.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_079250_1735_ESP_079817_1735_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD: Impact Structure in Brain Terrain
We call the convoluted flow textures seen in the middle latitudes "brain terrain" because it resembles the cerebral cortex of human brains.
Here we see a relatively large (280-meter diameter) circular structure that is most likely a relaxed impact crater. Both the brain terrain and the relaxed crater are consistent with ice-rich ground.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080792_2210
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 4K: Layering in the Upper Walls of Valles Marineris
The layers, exposed in most rock outcrops in this image, are most likely lava flows from flood lavas that once erupted across the region. Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2puaQv4
HiRISE 3D: Stratigraphy Exposed in Ausonia Cavus
An earlier image shoed an excellent exposure of diverse strata, but it’s the crater near the edge that draws our attention here.
Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/PSP_009889_1480_ESP_079872_1480_RED
HiPOD: Dark Craters
This image caught something interesting. Most of the surface is smooth regolith peppered with small craters. However, some of the craters are notably dark compared with everything else in the image.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080463_1950
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
Mystery Objects Uncovered in Globular Clusters —
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/mystery-objects-uncovered-in-globular-clusters/
HiClip mini 4K: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pits
The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of a line of pits along a narrow ridge in Cydonia Mensae. (This is a non-narrated clip with ambient sound.)
https://youtu.be/wNfNftNtQaQ
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Dunes in Abalos Undae
Our science goal is to investigate the relationship between furrows on dunes and wind, both formation and erasure.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_079970_2615_ESP_079996_2615_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiPOD: Gullies in Acidalia Planitia
This crater is located in Acidalia Planitia. It is situated in a sparsely cratered area of elongated mounds and hosts a variety of gully forms on its eastern, northern, and western interior slopes. This observation is centered on the crater’s western slope and captures gullies with prominent alcoves, boulders, and outcrops.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080430_2310
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE 3D: Large Clay Deposit near Magelhaens Crater
The CaSSIS mission identified nice colors and an interesting deposit in this locale.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_078827_1485_ESP_080449_1485_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiPOD: Flowing Rivers on Ancient Mars
This image of ridges in Aeolis Planum tells a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today. River beds often get filled with gravel and the surrounding terrain is often built up of fine-grained mud from river overflows. These ridges show the location of the old river beds in Mars' distant past.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_080081_1735
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science
HiPOD: Pitted Cones: Possible Methane Sources?
This observation shows relatively bright mounds scattered throughout darker and diverse surfaces in Chryse Planitia. These mounds are hundreds of meters in size. The largest of the mounds shows a central pit, similar to the collapsed craters found at the summit of some volcanoes on Earth. The origins of these pitted mounds or cratered cones are uncertain.
More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_055307_2215
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
#Mars #science #NASA
HiRISE After Dark
#NowPlaying > Chihei Hatakeyama > Requiem for Black Night and Earth Spiders
https://music.apple.com/us/album/requiem-for-black-night-and-earth-spiders/1468907532
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