New set of high-resolution Mars images online
Mon Oct 12, 2009 at 19:30 UTC
Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.
These views, captured during August 2009 by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, are on the camera team's University of Arizona Web site, at: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/oct_09.php.
High resolution image
Dune fields blanket the ground in the upper left of the image and a portion of the ground between the buttes. Exposures of brighter and darker materials are also visible in the portion of that area not covered by the dunes.
Observations of this region of Noctis Labyrinthus by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have shown indications of iron-bearing sulfates and phyllosilicate (clay) minerals. The exposed layers revealed in HiRISE observations of the area might be the sources of the mineral signatures seen by CRISM.
This view is a portion of a HiRISE observation taken on Aug. 18, 2009, at 11.2 degrees south latitude, 261.8 degrees east longitude. The full-frame image is available at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_014353_1685.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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